Kestrel made Elara repeat the sentence after every control line was cut.
"Bring your hip two centimeters toward me."
Caleb's silver stayed still on the first repetition.
He stood in the external rail frame at Foundry Twelve. The knee mechanic held one release. Four floor keepers held separate drop pins. Caleb could shrink out of the hip cradle under his own current action.
Elara sat twelve meters away in her rehabilitation frame.
"What changed?" Rina asked.
"I expected him to move the first time," Elara said. "Now I expect a test."
Kestrel removed the recorded words from the problem.
Sela Orr played Elara's first instruction through the foundry speaker. Caleb heard the exact pitch captured during the fitting.
His body made no movement.
Sela repeated the sentence in her own voice while wanting the hip moved away from the furnace.
No movement.
Caleb asked Elara to read an unrelated direction from a paper card.
"Raise your right hand five centimeters."
