The clinician asked Eli about the fourth channel before asking whether he wanted to enter.
“Empty,” he said. “No new imprint. No attempt to overlap four. No use since the supervised session.”
She checked that account against Juno’s training record. The channel notice, slow switching interval and first controlled movement use had separate entries. The old memory losses remained on the preceding page. Nobody had overwritten them with the successful test.
They met in the harbor consultation room before the entry crew assembled. The independent clinician had not commanded the expedition and would not be paid according to how many people she cleared. Tessa supplied the factual observations since training and let Eli answer the rest.
The neighbor’s name was still missing. The phrase from the river could be read and repeated without recovering its old recognition. Darius’s cadence remained blurred. Eli knew the difference between knowing that a loss existed and remembering what had been lost. Rest had not closed it.
The repeat checks showed no new confusion during the assessment. He could state the task, the planned return and the conditions that would stop him. The clinician asked him what he would do if the physical brace was not ready when the release count ended.
