Vasa placed the eight hundred names across the old cafeteria wall before the convoy began its return trip. Each record carried a death time, a location code, and Crowncast's national verification seal.
The times looked varied until she removed the local display zones. Every death had entered the archive during the same forty-second interruption in Crowncast's granary footage.
"They changed the clock shown to each city. The source entries are identical down to the System tick," Vasa said, moving the converted times into one column.
Nox stood beneath the list while his damaged channel continued aching from the road claim. The red casualty counter remained on the passive screen at the gate, giving Diana an unchanged copy to compare against later edits.
"Can a clerk enter eight hundred deaths in forty seconds?" he asked.
"Not with individual evidence. A prepared batch can enter them if Crowncast owns the record path and an authorized witness signs the package," she replied.
