The override finished falling before the team cleared the first intersection, and the field spread through the district registry with no wall to slow it.
It moved faster than any cordon the team could throw across the streets. Nox read the transfer map through Core Integration and watched strangers inherit wounds that had never belonged to their bodies.
A dock worker two streets over folded around a broken shoulder he had not earned, and its owner sat up on a Mercy cot unmarked. The registry had reassigned the damage the instant its priority list changed, moving the wound to the cheaper address.
"It is not picking hosts, it reads Sorn's priority order and follows it," Nox said, marking the shifts on Diana's relay as they lit. "Every re-rank slides the wound to whoever the list values least."
