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A meeting below the roof
Nila had printed ROOFTOP RAIN CLUB on a biscuit tin, but the first meeting happened one floor below the roof. Rain streaked the common-room windows of Harbour House. Beyond them, the garden pots stood in a silver blur. Ms Imani, the building caretaker, had closed the rooftop terrace for the wet weather. Nobody objected. There were cushions downstairs, and Jo had brought enough biscuits to give the tin a second purpose.
The club had a question left over from last week. Two rain collectors in the garden had produced different entries in their notebook. Jo wanted to put up a poster saying the west corner was rainier. Nila liked the sound of a discovery, but she could not yet explain the difference. On the table lay the notebook and photographs Ms Imani had taken on earlier dry visits. Through the window, they could also see enough of the terrace to draw its layout. Nila pulled a chair closer. A roof could be investigated from downstairs.