Didi rested her fingertips beside the empty bearer channel once the lineage volumes finally reached the table.
The prayer fitting sat disconnected inside its frame while frost crept along the trim without a voice or answering movement. Atheron stood beside the terminal warning as both recorders waited for Didi's permission to resume their account of its routes.
Hajin checked the stopped broadcast and dismissed its last icon before she looked toward him.
[ Broadcast: Off | Soul Energy and Fragment recovery: Paused ]
'Earth gets nothing tonight, she deserves to grieve without a crowd.'
"The record knows his name," she said, tracing the engraved entry without touching its contacts, "and it kept the way he carried that current, so is anything of him still here?"
Her father lowered his eyes toward the renewal signature sitting beneath his own authorization.
