The handprint stayed for eleven seconds.
Heat filled the palm first. Five fingers followed with different temperatures. The smallest finger had a cold strip across its middle joint. When the print lifted, four warm circles remained where fingertips had pressed the inner surface.
Sela Orr kept the manual shield closed over half the stamp.
"Current heat source," she said. "Current person remains unproved."
Veki Orl asked for a continuous view. The existing drill hole was two millimeters wide and ended against the embedded copper shaving. Bram Kitt could widen it without crossing the heated path if he entered from the tooth root.
He offered three bit sizes. Veki accepted the smallest under a hand stop. Deya Sorn kept the suppression-water valve. Bram retained the drill trigger. Either could end the cut.
The bit entered gray material.
