The commander granted less time than the neighborhood had hoped and enough for the verified assisted departures.
He recorded why. People remained close to an unfinished foundation whose behavior under damage had not been independently cleared. Accessible transport was being assembled. An engineer required an inspection before safe handling could be described. Those conditions justified postponement under his authority. They did not revoke the government’s order.
The organizer made him repeat the ending condition.
“If the last vehicle is delayed?”
“You report the reason before this interval ends. I review it then.”
“You aren’t promising another extension.”
“No.”
She wrote the answer with the first one. Tessa asked the relay operator to send both to the medics and the local households. Nobody should choose to wait for the later vehicle believing that the enforcement threat had disappeared.
