Jehovah looked from Sera to Tohu and waited.
Neither of them spoke first.
"Well," Jehovah said. "One of you start. And keep it clean. I did not come here for performance."
Sera crossed her arms. "I extracted nine survivors from a concluded lower design before full erasure finished. I held them under my coverage. They broke out. I am recovering them."
Tohu gave a short breath through his nose. "She is leaving out the part that matters. One of those nine carries residual force from my early work. She knew. She still tried to keep the whole group as private leverage."
Jehovah's eyes stayed on Sera. "Is that true?"
"I knew there was strong residual force in one of them," Sera said. "I did not call Tohu because possession was already mine. Extraction, coverage, and holding all sat under my authority. That is how Continuum claim works."
"That is how you wanted it to work," Tohu said. "You held leftover authority from an old assignment and treated it like found property."
