He bet on water as the first principle — not a costume, a berth. Rez-bi keeps the same quiet arithmetic.
Hint: rearrange “has let.” No thunderbolts; just a principle that still holds when the manifest is late.
Keep the berth and the hue; only the cargo behind them will change.
When Rez-bi unloads for real, this page becomes the quay. Until then: tied off, measured, wry about first causes.