Continuity put the twenty minutes on a public clock.
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TEMPORARY SINGLE-ADDRESS OPERATOR.
CALEB MERCER.
19:59
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Caleb had not accepted.
The clock counted anyway.
Sant opened the chamber with Copper Row injuries on one screen and the twenty-one survivors on another.
"Motion purpose: permit one operator to redirect existing mercy functions from Kim Mercer bounded address toward verified local rescue. Duration twenty minutes. No ownership transfer beyond active emergency routing."
Pike read the last sentence twice.
"Who ends the routing if the operator refuses at minute twenty?"
Continuity counsel answered, "Automatic expiration."
Kim's dead receipt route printed through Annex Four.
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AUTOMATIC EXPIRATION IS A PROMISE
FROM THE SYSTEM ASKING FOR A SEAT.
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The counsel ignored it.
Ward Nine's delegate supported the motion.
"My district has a working mercy door and no manual crew left. I can fear Mr. Mercer after my people leave the stairwell."
