Seven Digits, Unspent

Blue glass takes the docking hall apart into small obedient panes.

No vessel departed Yuhildak Exchange in this interval. The seven-digit remainder persisted behind the market relays, 0.3 kelvin warmer than the wall conduits and four beats slower than the nanite hum. This entity tested it against Kaia-Suun's excision pattern and found no match, only pressure: a number refusing to become evidence.

Veshkal-Ohm leaves the probe nested in the static.