Didi carried the authenticated archive registers through the damp lower corridors of the palace service floor.
Hajin and Ferra advanced beside her under the terms of the limited sovereign warrant, keeping their pace steady and deliberate.
Two royal recorders and six armed guards maintained an escort cordon behind them, their halberds angled toward the shadows.
The warrant's legal boundary terminated at a thin glowing line painted across the flagstones before the final descent.
Didi stopped precisely before the glowing threshold, opening her bound records so the folios could be compared in real time.
The refusal socket rested securely inside Ferra's divided travel cradle, its suppression chain taut and completely silent.
Sera Noll's final cart entry originated beneath the western laundry washrooms, where the public blueprint terminated at a linen-return wall.
