The carrier captain had kept the medicine properly.
Drake checked the storage before asking why the chests remained aboard. Two small sealed boxes occupied the declared place, clear of heat and moisture. Their papers recorded the registered spiritual ingredient and the second authorization still required for release.
The broad comparison had found no unstable cell.
The specialist would return in the morning.
“My crew needs a signed answer,” the captain said. “We miss the next safe departure, somebody needs to own that decision.”
Drake read the handling entry. The revised daytime process had moved ordinary bulk more efficiently. It had not made a specialist available after hours merely because the medicines could be called essential.
A messenger arrived from the infirmary with a specific written need.
One existing patient’s scheduled course depended on a preparation in the first chest. The remaining stock would not last until the morning inspection. The healer had checked substitution and recorded why the available alternative would not serve this course.
