The band had reached the door before the bone did.
Ty kept reading the line until the words stopped trying to become relief and became work. His finger came second. That mattered. It took one clean knife away from Zunoder and left twenty dirtier ones on the table.
Omina kept her palm on the page.
"Sequence stays separate from blame until the authority chain opens."
Zunoder accepted the warning with the kind of patience people used when they believed patience itself counted as dignity.
"The band carrying borrowed access may move this from theft into emergency transfer."
JJ's pencil scraped once.
"Emergency transfer is a lovely coat for a body-shaped problem."
Heissman looked at the transfer tray line again.
"Borrowed access needs an authorizing stamp. The stamp should say where the access came from, even if the handler face stays sealed."
Omina lifted her hand from the page.
"Stamp facts only. No child name. No handler face. No title conclusion."
