Ash released Hajin's sleeve only after Lana promised the copied plate would leave the witness desk.
Two guards escorted the child into the northern record room and kept him beyond both closed doors.
He looked back once before the door closed while Ferra carried the ceramic case away from the desk.
Lana kept one hand on his shoulder until the southern hall disappeared from his sight.
"He is finished with tests," Lana said while she carried her signed ledger beneath one arm. "Anything else happens outside his sight."
"Agreed," Hajin replied while the second door closed behind them. "Keep him inside the registry until the mine settles."
Ferra moved the ceramic frame into the repaired southern yard and placed it upon a stone evidence table.
Juna checked the open approaches while the remaining guards cleared every registry worker beyond the wall.
Hajin loosened the Chain from his right hand and lowered its wrapped fragments into Ferra's separate clamps.
