After that, Elias bought the Rainmeter to spite the sea. A way of saying: I see you coming. You won’t take me by surprise.
Not aloud—Elias would have dismissed that as a glitch. No, it whispered in the margins. A stray notification at 2:17 AM: “Pressure drop imminent. Check the tide gate.” He did. A log had jammed the mechanism. He cleared it an hour before a surge that would have flooded the garden. monterey rainmeter
Elias froze. He read it again. Then again. After that, Elias bought the Rainmeter to spite the sea