The route asked for two signatures, and nobody moved first.
The brick wall kept the bone powder spilling toward the outside rail. The case stayed centered. The buried wrist ring stayed lifted just beyond the hook. For the first time since the fire entered the bridge, the receiver had a clean path to both bodies.
Clean paths had caused most of their problems.
Blue's hands stayed pressed over Daemon's dead fuse.
"If one side answers first, the receiver can choose that body as the easier route," she said. "The other body becomes weight under the decision."
JJ kept her shoulder against the case frame.
"That sounds like a prettier way to say corpse ballast," she said.
"That is exactly why I avoided the shorter version," Blue said.
