The council met in a room with two doors, and the visitors were shown which one they could use.
It opened onto the same public walking path as the treatment house. The other led toward a maintenance passage and remained closed. Eli took the place Ilyan indicated beside the wall, below the seats reserved for council members. A local observer stayed within sight of every visitor admitted. Sera put her notebook on her knees. Mira sat beside her with both hands empty.
No one offered them a vote.
The interpreter began with the decisions already made: the medical visit had ended within its terms, the shelter brace was holding at its last check, and property questions remained unresolved. Eren gave the repair report herself. She included the preserved doorway, the narrower storage route, and the need to watch the new witness strip after further pressure changes.
The report did not ask the council to trust surface hunters because one wall had been helped.
A woman across the room asked whether the visitors would now request access to every passage they had noticed. The interpreter gave her name as Hessa. Her tone was level, almost weary. Eli found that harder to answer than anger.
