“No reachable exit before that wall goes,” Sera said.
She gave the report without turning it into permission. The separate command crew had a blocked rear door, an exposed front opening and no side approach the workers could clear in time. The ordinary jack had shifted the rack enough for the person trapped behind it to move. It could not support the wall where the secondary gate was breaking through.
Eli looked at the lamp inside. It flashed twice, the agreed sign that the crew had heard Sera’s instruction to stay back. Someone beside the lamp was helping another responder stand.
“The defense might give them a covered interval,” Eli said.
“Might.”
“I can’t complete a safe rotation before the next strike.”
Sera glanced toward the wall, then back at him. “You’re also under a fresh complete inherited stop. You developed confusion during the convoy. That permission ended. This would breach both restrictions.”
“I understand.”
