Rain rattled against the roof of the March Road staging office hard enough to blur the voices on the radio.
Seren stood beside the operations board while the first contractor objection arrived through Silvercrest’s commercial channel.
The message called Blackridge verification excessive, duplicative, and responsible for avoidable cure delay.
Outside the office window, three contractor machines sat idle under work lights.
Seren looked at the yard before she answered anything.
One excavator had no assigned operator beside it. A reinforcement truck remained parked with its rear doors closed. Two contractor crews that had appeared on the adopted schedule were missing from the current roster.
Mara brought the objection up on the left side of the board.
Seren opened the operational record
