The black frame stayed too long.
Six minutes had vanished, and the drawer made them feel all six without ticking through them. The gap ran from 23:25 to 23:31.
JJ looked at the blank video.
"The gap is convenient enough to file taxes."
The first record blamed the door.
Anika leaned closer to her feed.
"The shelf took the hit before the door did."
The video rewound. The shelf rocked. The door swung. The frame tore into black after the equipment took the impact.
JJ pointed her pencil at the correction.
"Furniture responds better than half this office today."
Omina kept her eyes on the gap.
"Tell me what survived inside the broken strip."
The drawer disliked the question. For once, Zunoder stayed quiet. Ty looked at him and found Zunoder watching the black frame as if it had offered him something and hidden the price.
What survived was a partial audio trace.
Heissman stiffened.
"Supply cameras sometimes recorded audio without admitting it."
