Petr Lask

Threshold Institute · Staff record

Name

Petr Lask

Role

Surveyor of the lost expedition; kept its bearings

Years

Years 30 to 32

First file

T-029 Choir

Last file

T-054 Porcelain Mask

Petr Lask was a surveyor on Anneli Sund's expedition. In year 30, in his second month of training for it, a choir in the ruins nearest the western edge called his name to a survey he was not on. He was at the Institute that night, and he was not told (T-029).

He went through the rift with Sund's six surveyors on Year 32, month 1, day 12 (T-031). When the radio died in the gorge the expedition went on by his bearings (the expedition's field log, a journal find). The last page of his own log is dated to day 52 or 53: the land past the gorge did not turn, the camp was in the old building, Aho and Mo had gone down first and come up quiet, and the voices from the western ruins were calling for him again. "Sund says not to answer," he wrote, and set a line of bearings under it (T-031). The camp's log for day 60 reads: "Lask is gone." (the field log).

The third search found him eight months after the expedition left, standing on a ridge far past the last marked zone, in his own coat, pack and harness (T-031). Lina Dahl called to him and he did not answer the password. It came on with Lask's own walk, the long step and the left shoulder low, and Erik Halden fired first. Inside the coat there was nothing but the skin (T-031). The Institute numbered it as the hollow (T-031).

His bearings pointed deeper than any survey had gone. Tomas Rehn marked them on every map and kept the log on his desk (T-031), and the fourth search followed them until it was turned back (T-032, T-033). Sund's own page, found fifteen years later, begins: "Petr is gone. We go on." (T-054).

Papers under their name

• Addendum T-031-2: recovered note, the last page of P. Lask's survey log, found in the hollow's pack, in T-031 Hollow

In the case files

Petr Lask is named in 6 case files. The last column says where in each file.

Part III: Going through (the places and creatures)

File	Found	Where named
T-029 Choir	Year 30, month 7, day 15	Addendum T-029-1, Addendum T-029-3
T-031 Hollow	Year 32, month 9, day 30	Discovery, Addendum T-031-1, Addendum T-031-2, Addendum T-031-3, What followed
T-032 Cache mimic	Year 33, month 2, day 14	Where found, Discovery
T-033 Shard swarm	Year 33, month 2, day 15	Where found, Addendum T-033-2

Part III: Going through (the objects)

File	Found	Where named
T-041 Skeleton Key	Year 39, month 5, day 22	Discovery

Part V: The widening

File	Found	Where named
T-054 Porcelain Mask	Year 47, month 6, day 21	Discovery, Addendum T-054-3

In the journal

• Research dictation, a recording at the Institute's site
• Field log, camp, a terminal at the lost expedition's camp