Panel 1
A ration stall boasts that its queue moves every forty seconds while most residents bake beyond a narrow awning.
Caption: The clerk measured the line in minutes. The sun used skin.
CLERK: Fastest queue in the ward.
Panel 2
An older resident stumbles just outside the shade; the timer still rings proudly.
TIMER: ON TARGET.
Panel 3
A steward marks the ground where shade ends and stops the counter, unfurling patched canopies while handle-out cups appear.
STEWARD: Shade is capacity.
Panel 4
The line is slower under broad cover with water available; the timer hangs silent beneath a dead-five wrench.
Caption: The service lost six minutes and stopped spending people.
CLERK: New record?
STEWARD: Fewer fainted.