On paper, supply counted as reassignment.
That was how the line survived.
N. Vale had been sent to supply after the objection. The words sat under the override stamp, plain enough to pass through any office that preferred tidy staffing notes over consequences.
Heissman read the entry with his mouth tight.
"The paperwork would call that ordinary reassignment, not punishment."
JJ looked at him until he gave the room the version with blood in it.
"The event lost the person who objected to it."
Anika spoke from the shelter kitchen before Zunoder could polish that down.
"Supply keeps your hands and loses your mouth."
The drawer took her sentence so neatly that Ty saw her anger land before she said another word.
Waddell shifted closer to his mic.
"You can stop before it takes too much from you."
Anika kept both hands on the sink edge.
"I know exactly what it takes from me today."
