The archive room contained one treatment cot, and the rescued child refused to approach it.
She saw the white sheets, covered her horns, and crawled beneath a records desk before Vella finished opening the door while Sanctuary tightened around her core.
The beginning of another seizure reached Hajin through the protected connection several streets away. He held the refuge open while Ferra dismantled an Ordered Court pylon.
Vella said, "The cot resembles the laboratory table, so I will leave it where it stands and treat her beneath the desk if she asks," through the Spirit Ring while keeping her voice low and staying away from the desk.
Hajin held the Sanctuary connection open while Ferra worked beside him. He supplied no calming command through the bloodline, because the reversible refuge granted him no such authority.
Fear was not a foreign command to expel, because it belonged to the child even when the laboratory had taught her body to express it through pain.
