Tessa heard Adra say “west post” before the line filled with static.
The radio operator tried the alternate frequency. For a moment, the hospital district came through over the call: a clipped report about load, temperature and the second vehicle. Then that signal vanished too.
On the paper schedule, three cities had separate reporting intervals. In the room, they had all become a sound she could not interpret.
“Mark the last complete report,” Tessa said.
The operator wrote the time. He did not fill the missing sentence with what he thought the commander must have meant.
Tessa was at a treatment coordination point outside the stadium’s immediate shelter perimeter. Local medics were preparing to receive people if the routes opened. Eli and Sera were nearer the stadium approaches. Juno maintained the instrument and workshop link from the technical post, where the available records and correction team could still reach her. No one in the group had a continuous view of all three operations.
They had planned for that. Planning did not make the silence comfortable.
The visible signal at the west approach changed before the radio returned.
