The new reserve reading was three hundred and eighty.
Sera checked the instrument, waited through the reference interval and measured again. Iven had rested normally after the recent light work. No machine had poured an unrecorded supply into him that morning.
Twenty more charges of conditioned capacity since the last full check, four weeks earlier.
Five channels remained five.
He seated the familiar working sequence, gave the small eight-charge calibration demand and released on her signal. The graft answered cleanly. Its twenty-five physical patterns remained available, with the passive return keeping its own stable route.
“Three hundred and seventy-two remaining,” Sera said.
“I can read.”
“Then write it.”
