Commander Halsey did not request a meeting. She issued a notice.
It arrived on my tablet at 0700 hours. Structural Integrity Audit. 0900 Hours. Mandatory Access to Foundation Layers.
I read it while standing in the kitchen. The coffee was brewing. The smell was bitter and sharp. Ezra stood at the counter, reviewing the legal text on his own screen.
"They are claiming seismic instability," Ezra said. "They say the resonance frequency is compromising the bedrock."
"It is," I said. "But not in the way they think."
"They want to drill core samples," he said. "Into the foundation stones."
"If they drill, they break the lattice," I said. "The house will lose the tune."
"Then we cannot let them drill."
"We cannot stop them legally," I said. "Safety overrides sovereignty in Dominion law."
