Felix found six ways to break the apparatus before breakfast.
None answered the question Tamsin had written beneath the installation drawing.
What carries the load afterward?
The receiver tools lay secured on the clear side of the workshop table. Sera’s record identified what each had been designed to do. Vivienne’s limited assessment rested beside the service appendix, refusing to turn his healthy present into an indefinite public resource.
Felix traced the fastening he could destroy with a precise anchored release.
“This would stop installation.”
“Of this assembly,” Tamsin said. “Before connection.”
“They could build another.”
