The invitation called for original records.
Ilyan read the phrase to the council and then read the settlement’s existing authorization. Selected copies could travel. Originals would remain under council custody, with access available under independent supervision and agreed conditions. The surface summons did not change that mandate by arriving on official paper.
A hearing might be useful. It might also become the place where emergency authority was used to take the evidence out of the hands of the people affected by it. Bram had seen enough of the wording to prepare an inventory, and not enough to promise that a courteous request would remain courteous at the city boundary.
The council asked for the delegation’s actual plan.
Juno laid out the technical packet. It included repeated reservoir tests under their stated permissions, selected transfer readings, the joint comparison, the verified pressure subset with excluded intervals listed, and the failed distributed-anchor model. The echo fragment and both timing readings were attached as research direction. The unapproved junction proposal was identified as unapproved.
The packet did not contain a finished seal.
Tessa added the engineers’ approved statements. One full identifying account remained held by an independent advocate. The public technical version had its limits. The second corroborating statement supported warning before continuation and acknowledged genuine containment. Neither witness had endorsed every claim about the prison or authorized unrestricted use of family details.
