Strain and Salvage
Horses strain against block-and-tackle systems, hooves schlorping rhythmically as they drag salvaged L-beams marked 'Reynolds Iron Works 1915' toward awaiting barges bound for Moon Island. Period cameras flash intermittently, freezing moments: a child’s frozen laundry line transformed into crystalline syrup fossils, engineers chalkboarding viscosity calculations (5,000 cP @ −12°C), and distorted newspaper scraps proclaiming 'Wilson’s Peace Voyage' preserved in the sugary matrix.

