Caelin's aide stopped writing after the word cover.
Her pen stayed above the pad. Ink gathered at the tip until a small dot marked the paper beside the empty office line.
Ty saw her notice it.
She rubbed the dot with her thumb and made it worse.
No one laughed. That helped.
Omina left the object where it was and moved one step sideways.
"Open maker role without personal name or location."
The file gave Ty a flat pressure under the wrist, a shape the room had learned by feel. Refusal had weight, delay had grain, and this carried neither.
Something sat behind the drawer and kept the drawer from opening.
Omina waited.
Zunoder folded his hands on the table.
"A cover can generate from routing rules without a maker."
JJ turned her pencil over in her fingers.
"Workers use rules that someone chose to keep."
Heissman looked at the cover line, then at Mara.
"Templates can outlive every person who remembers why they exist."
