# Old Light and a Question

*Link 975,104, link 33 of Book 939 in the Fifth Age. Caught by House Sec, led by Hale Corrigan. Sun, 08 Nov 2026 21:59:51 UTC.*

Omens: Cheap passage; A quick catch; Busier than the day; Passage slackens.

A girl of about six stood at the foot of Hob's Landing with her hand up. Why does the Lantern go dim, she asked, when it's the only light there is? Ansel Crake did not look up from his wick. Because it's old, he said, and it's paying us out what it has left. She thought about that, then asked whether it would miss us. He said it had never had the chance to notice us at all.

The block: mined by: SECPOOL; time: 2026-11-08, 21:59 UTC; since the block before: 1 min 31 s; transactions: 7,624; median fee rate: ₿0.1/vB; fees: ₿381,555; subsidy: ₿312,500,000; fees as a share of the reward: 0.12%; space taken by data (inscriptions and other marks): 92%; coinjoins: none.

Block [975,104](https://mempool.space/block/000000000000000000017e7de90b18f156693a214b18d6f1073aff5998d24cc7) on mempool.space. On the site: https://halvenfall.com/block/975104