The first eleven-piece arrived carrying Iseul Park.
She stood on its left palm with a patient list in one hand and a respiratory brace under the other arm.
The piece carried five pallets against its chest.
White route paint covered its fingers.
It entered Central Civic Shelter through the main doors and stepped into black water.
The water ran up its legs.
The piece stopped.
Iseul felt the palm change under her feet.
Separate fingers fused into one flat plate.
"Put me down."
The piece lowered its hand halfway.
The hollow-center field pulled west.
Its arm turned toward the empty intake desks instead.
Iseul jumped.
She hit black water on both knees and kept the patient list above her head.
Rina heard her name through the shelter feed.
"Iseul Park. Harm?"
"Rescue hand becoming a floor. Five brace pallets entering the water. Wanted direction is me out east door. Pallets stay if the body will not release them."
The foundation witness reached her first.
