The allocation layer was not refusing people out of malice, which made it considerably harder to argue with. Nothing in that architecture had ever been written by somebody who wanted anybody kept out.
Emilia had the architecture open before the first invalid reception finished logging itself. Arrival triage checked a priority code and rejected anybody who did not carry one.
Serian's answer to that arrived faster than any argument anybody could have filed. Her enclave had been running a neutral medical corridor under a priced contract since the freeze started.
They brought that corridor up to full capacity in nine minutes rather than trying to break the layer. Nobody attacked the architecture at any point during the night, and nobody needed to.
Eleven root workers seated the enclave's own support lines into four reception platforms at once. Her people took channel damage on every one of those lines doing it.
