The medical room kept its own power allowance.
On day1686, when the receiving workshop asked whether its spare charging turn could be borrowed, Sera checked the actual request and the actual patients before answering.
The workshop could wait.
Two people in the medical room could not wait comfortably. One needed a supported dressing change. The older man moved from the lower houses still needed observation away from the trapped air. A third patient had an ordinary graft collar that had begun slipping against a swollen forearm.
The reserve was not a decorative box beneath a bench.
It was there for these people.
Sera refused the workshop’s draw and sent the next available interval she could safely release.
The messenger accepted it.
