Omina stopped the folder before it cleared the cabinet.
The burned gold seal hung halfway out, bright enough to tint the edge of the tablet screen. Mason slept on the cot behind Jade, one hand still wrapped around the dinosaur under the blanket. Outside the frame, the tablet had already found a blanket edge, a cot rail, and the smear of gold light near his feet.
Kieran the Hunter saw the same theft and put one hand on the cot frame.
"Move the cot far enough that the screen cannot borrow him."
Jade bent to the wheel lock without asking why. Waddell took the other side and checked the dark part of the tablet as they moved. The cot rolled badly over a patched strip in the shelter floor. Mason shifted once. Kieran kept her hand on the rail until the heat reached him through the metal and his fingers loosened around the toy.
