The red classification pane widened while Hajin turned from the treatment yard toward the clinic's reinforced inner ward.
One ceramic angle unfolded inside the spent violet barrier, drawing mana from a channel whose owner lay dead outside.
It entered the clinic wall through the same crossing where Vella's golden treatment web had passed during the assault.
"Seal every door without touching the inner cots," Hajin said, forming Aegis across the windows, "the spell is inside our defenses."
Militia guards closed the rear passage while orderlies moved standing patients away from every wall plus partition.
Aria divided her warning into separate panes, tracking the planted caster, his dead channel, plus the remaining assault ledger.
[ Prior clinic assault accounting ]
[ Hostile dead: 17 ]
[ Hostile captives: 7 ]
[ Unaccounted attackers: 0 ]
The delayed spell belonged to the rear-left caster Vella had killed, leaving no hidden twenty-fifth fighter beyond the clinic.
