Juno left the first display blank while the reader warmed.
The observers watched a gray rectangle on the hospital screen. An Aegis representative checked his watch. The outside technician read the calibration sheet, looked at the shield mounting and asked whether it had been removed for transport.
“Yes,” Juno said. “Positions marked. Refitted and checked. Warm reference is next.”
“Then take it before you load the copy.”
She did. Eli stood near the back of the room with the confirmed casualty record in its envelope. He could hear how slowly the printer moved while the reader captured the reference. The audience had come expecting a finding. Juno was making them wait for a machine to become something she could responsibly ask for one.
Kellan remained by the equipment table. Sera sat with her original field log open, working copy beside it. Tessa had arrived after handing over the ward patients to the receiving clinician. She took a seat near the door so a clinical call would not require crossing the display.
No patient chart appeared on the table.
When the reference stayed inside the measured limits, Juno loaded the copied recording and began the presentation. She described the protected channel, the documented opening, the interrupted copying attempt and the supported method used afterward. The original recording remained with the inquiry. Every graph shown today came from a preserved copy whose relationship to the original had been checked within stated limits.
