Caleb could force the route body back out in fragments.
Kestrel gave the projection without softening it. Forty to seventy pieces would leave through Mercy's walls, drains, patient lifts, and exterior rescue baskets. Any piece could rebuild from a destination it reached.
Caleb kept the intruder inside his silver.
"Move me to the foundry," he said.
The thing below his ribs used Asha Venn's voice.
"East bank has treatment."
"That statement belongs to the bridge record," Ena Venn said over the family link. "You may use the evidence. You may not answer it as my sister."
Caleb acknowledged Ena, then closed the voice channel into one load zone. The route body pushed against the closure with twenty-two more sounds.
Milo Sun asked for his mother.
Nadi Bell recited lane distance.
Pavel Sorn asked whether the plum had gone bad.
The last question existed nowhere in the operation file.
