The baseline test removed their advantages.
For three hours, Rowan could not read convergence routes. Bram’s restoration was limited to ordinary medical knowledge and tools.
Tess’s protected continuity was suspended, though she was allowed written prompts. The habitat’s planning core recalculated every system under those conditions.
I sat in the review chair and watched probabilities move.
Food distribution slowed because Rowan could not predict corridor closures.
A cooling fault remained unresolved because Bram could identify the damaged component but could not make fractured material rejoin.
Tess repeated an inventory count, forgot she had completed it, and began again until someone showed her the mark she had made on her own wrist.
The walls held. Work slowed, mistakes cost more,
