Hessa tied a black cord around the Abyss Pressure control.
The knot meant unavailable by choice, not cooldown. Jiang could still distinguish a nonphysical source passively, but the active containment that had rescued the earlier test was forbidden.
"If you reach for it, I close the dive," Hessa said.
"If I reach for anything, check whether I have grown hands."
"I will close it after laughing."
The selected record set contained one physical modern edition packet. Its collection index linked the two Jon versions, the hostile poem, and legal-source summaries, but none of those derivative lanes received authority over the others.
A separate quarantine frame surrounded the index. It had one inward gate and no historical fields. Any external addition could enter, receive a contamination label, and lose access to the selected source when the gate closed.
[FINAL CONTAINMENT AUDIT]
[Selected physical record sets1]
[Modern collection index1]
[Historical voices0 | people0]
