Recovery Walker Nine printed Elara's name before she touched it.
The strip emerged below Tesk Arin's front window while Pela cleaned Caleb's reopened hip wound.
`ELARA VOSS / INTENT CORRECTION SEAT AVAILABLE`
A narrow chair folded from the walker's left rib. Its right side carried a padded arm cradle built for severe weakness. Three brass stops sat beneath it in the sequence one, two, four.
Elara remained in her rehabilitation chair beside the torn freight mat. Her right arm stayed in its sling. She opened the paper strip with her left hand and read it twice.
"I did not request a seat."
Tesk could see the folded mechanism from his compartment. "I did not deploy one."
Pori Halm's boiler window held at thirty-three minutes under lower bridge pressure. Vena Korr's right claw hung damaged beside the room she no longer held. Uvek Dorr kept his rear command released.
No crew station claimed the chair.
