At the point where failure follows. Also examining carefully — the same word for a danger and for the rigour that prevents it.

Honestly not yet whole — a state to be named plainly, never hidden; the opposite of a truncated thing that looks finished.

A gap between how things are and how they need to be. Naming a problem well is most of solving it.

A signal that harm is possible if nothing changes. A warning must be spent carefully, since ignored ones stop being read.