The ring was poured in one piece. A section of it no longer agrees with the rest of the pour. The Lining runs round the ring along the inside of the outer wall, after the operative, and while it is in the wall a wound glances off it.
Level with the operative the wall cracks, and the Lining lashes out across the corridor toward where the operative stood. A pillar stops it, and the corridor's inner edge is past its reach. After the lash it lies open where it stopped, then goes back into the wall.
Record
The directive filed for putting it down cleanly records that ANOM-12 returned to the wall it came from, and that the wall does not record which part.
See also
Records cited
- Critical Response field manual, ENTITIES
- Critical Response directives