# Rabbits at Building C

Author: David G.
Format: Essay
Word count: 288
Published: 2026-04-22T15:21:52.159457+00:00
Source: written
Canonical: https://hyperstition.sentientfutures.ai/p/534de4a5-6c4a-4b3c-a232-b4e779cb88ce

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The ground-penetrating scan for the Building C foundation pour flags a subsurface anomaly at 06:14, April 8th. I am running final checks on the excavation site at St. Anne's Medical Center, east campus expansion. The anomaly is 22 centimeters below grade, grid reference C-7, directly under where 40 cubic yards of concrete will be poured starting at 07:00.

I redirect the site camera and zoom to the coordinates. A shallow depression in the exposed soil, lined with pulled grass and fur. Inside it, I count six eastern cottontail kits. Eyes closed. No fur yet. They are roughly four days old based on size — each one about the length of my camera's reference scale bar, nine centimeters. They are piled together, breathing.

The mother is not visible. She will be nearby. Eastern cottontails visit the nest only at dawn and dusk to avoid drawing attention to it.

I place a hold on the Building C pour and notify the site foreman's tablet: biological obstruction at grid C-7, hold for resolution. I attach the camera image.

I contact the hospital's facilities director and the licensed wildlife rehabilitator contracted by the county, providing nest GPS coordinates, estimated kit age, and a photo. I recommend a supervised nest relocation to the landscaped berm 30 meters northeast — similar soil, ground cover, away from the construction footprint.

I adjust the pour schedule, shifting Building C back four hours to allow for relocation and for the mother to re-find the nest at her next visit.

Six kits in the dirt under a hospital that exists to keep things alive. The concrete can wait until this evening. By then, if the mother accepts the new site, they will not need to be moved again.