The room had an overflow bucket, a catch tray and a broad outlet leading into a buffer.
Felix disliked its optimism.
“Could we at least make it look less likely to explode?”
Lyra moved the bucket behind his bench.
The engineer put it back where the worker could reach it.
“I liked the first arrangement,” Felix said.
“The outlet is isolated,” Ruth told him. “So is the model. Nothing here connects to the gate.”
She checked the return for herself.
