The frame held the cutting floor open with both front arms.
Beneath it, one pump bank worked through six glass cylinders at different speeds. Clear pistons pushed blue, yellow, black, and red-brown fluids through separate tubes before the lines entered one iron pressure trunk.
A single toothed crank drove all six pistons. They were separate fluid chambers inside one working bank.
The trunk ran toward North's tooth.
Another branch rose under the clinic gantry. A third passed through Rook's forked pedal and into the boiler support chain. The active frame stood over a fourth outlet with its rear heel above an empty coupling.
"Do not call anything in that pit one animal," Irik said.
She lowered three clean sample paddles on separate tool cords. Caleb lay on his right side and guided the cords around the torn floor edge with the blunt hook. His hip stayed flat. Blood remained at Sefa's outer dressing mark.
