The workshop chair stood in the middle of the meeting.
Tessa had asked for it to be brought back after the benches were cleared. Empty, with the contact band laid open on its seat, it prevented the discussion from moving too easily into the air above people’s heads.
The woman who had suffered the overdraw did not use it.
She came with the person she had chosen to accompany her and sat near the door, where she could leave without passing the engineers. The clinician had arranged continued follow-up. Tessa checked privately whether she wanted to remain for the meeting. She did, for the moment. That was not an agreement to another test.
Eli stood at the wall until the custodian told him he was blocking a shelf. He moved to the end of a bench.
The regulator sat disconnected on a separate work surface. Its damaged measuring section was covered against accidental contact. The dungeon engineer had marked where the fault would need to be tested. They had not reproduced the discrepancy yet, and the anchor remained out of service.
Tessa began with the two numbers.
She wrote the woman’s agreed limit where all the participants could see it. Beside it she wrote the independent reading that had ended the trial. The prototype’s lower record went underneath, identified as the value displayed by the device.
