Soma cut Kim before the message finished.
Every dirty text route went black.
Aldgate's receipt printer stopped after `BRING MY BOY TO` and held the final word inside its hot mouth.
Mercy's family wall lost Kim's rules.
South Ward lost the weather mirror, three heat maps, and a pharmacy queue people had rebuilt by hand after Route Six burned.
Annex Four lost light.
The floor moved under Caleb.
He caught the empty iron frame before it fell through the open conduit. Pela grabbed Rina's paper roll. Iharu found the wall with both hands.
The fourteen feeders took another matching step beneath East Market.
The black call box stayed alive because Aren used wire older than Kim's rights stack.
"Cut confirmed," Aren said. "Something local remains."
The Annex speakers came on.
Kim's voice filled the dark.
Warm. Tired. Close enough to Caleb's childhood that his shoulders knew it before his mind caught up.
"You still hide batteries behind the left radiator."
Caleb faced the sound.
