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of the body,” Frank said, his hand reaching over to gently turn the brass thumbwheel on the side of the microscope. “The thorax.”

The image sharpened, the insect’s black armor appearing rough and pitted like gravel.

“There is a small double ridge near the back edge,” I said. “It looks like a tiny notch, almost like a manufacturing defect.”