The Hunting Avatar hit the empty southern pillar before Didi's forward scouts secured its surrounding perimeter.
Hajin watched the impact race across the accepted return and vanish somewhere west.
Vella's voice snapped through their bond a heartbeat later, ragged and fast, "Plaster just dropped in three crowded rooms at the western receiving infirmary, it hit that empty pillar and landed here!"
"I've got my healthy hand on a bleeding wound and starlight on the beds, so get these patients beyond the line!"
Stretcher crews hauled patients past the corrupted feed's chalk-marked boundary while she kept treating the wounded beds.
"Shit, shit, it bounced?" Hajin yelled, gaping at the untouched pillar, "it hit nothing and still found people?"
Aria laid the observed transfer beside the district reports and refused to call any deserted pillar safe to strike.
"Identical accepted instructions connect the nodes," she said, "so a local blow can leave through another district."
