Blue kept one hand near each depression on the board and waited for Ty's count, but Ty gave her none yet.
The service pin still held the stone lip open. The board had a hole that wanted the same pin. Daemon had left one tool for two jobs, because every answer in this hallway came with a hand already trapped in it.
"The board wants the pin, but the stone lip is still using it," Ty said.
"That is a rude amount of demand from a board smaller than my forearm," JJ said.
Yun-Jin kept her fingers on the pin.
"If I pull it, the lip closes, and if the lip closes, we lose the body, the hand, and the hook position," she said.
Rusuf held the maintenance sword and looked at the gap under the lip.
"The square tip can brace the lip for one turn," he said. "It was built for housings, and this lip is pretending to be one."
"Pretending is doing a lot of work in this place," Blue said.
