Six legal slats lay across the floor, each separated by the width of Jiang's foot.
The first carried the April15 royal letter. The second carried the October8 Sudavik tribunal. The third held the source-language classification applied to eighteen men. The fourth represented the invoked `Jonsbok` rule. The fifth held Ari's later enforcement summons. The sixth carried the separate January26,1616 Myrar proceeding.
Conti placed the modern legal index on a seventh rail above them.
"That rail stays removable," Jiang said.
He tested each gap with one emperor foot, then used his beak to push the royal-letter slat farther from the tribunal. His body lacked hands, but the broad feet and low center made accidental merging harder than it would have been for a kneeling human.
"You have become an archival doorstop," Hessa said.
"Evolution finds a purpose for everyone."
