Sera came back with a map that had no corridors on it.
The lines ran between custodians, workshop copies, a human engineering office, and the people authorized to approve a revision. The proposed dungeon site sat at the bottom, connected to an obligation to report malfunctions. No line gave its operators an equal right to approve what happened next.
Eli read the diagram twice.
“Is someone planning to change it without them?”
“I haven’t found evidence of a plan,” Sera said. “This is what the arrangement allows.”
She spread the answers beside the map. At the workshop, the visiting engineer had been told joint inspection covered every component. The office responsible for the restricted specification described its authority as continuing security review. A custodian believed approved replacements could be sent sealed to local sites. Another had said the local operator would receive instructions after a change was authorized.
The answers did not agree about who could say no.
Juno stood over the documents without touching them.
