Tessa heard Rook’s account from a radio above a stack of unopened medicine crates.
He praised the transport crews, the disciplined containment teams and the guild officers who had preserved a coordinated response while independent groups pursued incompatible plans. The corridor did not appear in his account. Neither did the patients who had moved through it after the official core transport withdrew.
The depot administrator turned the volume down as if that settled the interruption.
“You need a guild-approved receiving officer,” he said.
Tessa put her manifest on the counter. “The named recipients are clinical facilities. Their staff can accept custody.”
“Your collection roster is a volunteer roster.”
“The drivers are volunteers. The receiving clinicians aren’t.”
“The new release instruction applies to consignments moved under an independent roster.”
