Bram did not call the rescue complete until the operator had checked every member of the foundation crew.
Eli stood beside the last stretcher while the man with the injured leg answered his name. The operator marked him present, then read the whole assignment list back to the crew. One worker had changed positions before the failure, and the older mark placed her at the outer frame. She corrected it herself from the treatment bench. The operator added the actual position rather than pretend his list had predicted the rescue perfectly.
All the assigned workers were accounted for outside the perimeter.
The engineer confirmed that nobody from the route-check crew remained inside. She sat with her knee raised while a medic wrapped it, angry at the enforced stillness and too practical to disguise the swelling. Her preliminary assessment was that the foundation could not be used again without a full examination. No one should reconnect the local equipment merely because the physical cutoff had worked.
The local commander ordered a guard at the accessible control approach and asked for a wider safety line around the damaged base. The remaining pressure still needed watching. Rescue had not made the breach obedient, and the reserve did not have enough equipment to turn the district into a place without danger.
