The engineer gave Rook the independent readings before she gave him her conclusion.
She held the comparison where his chamber camera could see it, then indicated the projected band he had supplied. The observed draw had crossed it under the stated conversion. A second instrument supported the change within its sampling limits. The stabilization curve was not developing as the model had promised.
“It is consuming names outside the predicted range,” she said. “Stop or reduce the draw before we reach a limit we haven’t measured.”
The field behind her broke into fragments of identity references. Some remained too incomplete to preserve accurately. Juno recorded the rate and the output’s limitations, not a guessed list of people whose families might later read a mistaken name as a final accounting.
Rook looked at the boundary view.
The constructs still held the initial breach. Pressure in that sector remained lower than before they had taken load. An abrupt loss of the reinforcement could open what they had just restrained. The evidence that made the intervention urgent also made a blind stop dangerous.
“Continue while I restrict it,” he said.
The engineer did not move at once.
