Chapter 218
The Room That Demands Signature
The room in corridor archive sent one unexpected command:
sign or proceed impossible.
Priya asked if this ever appears in legal systems.
No.
Elise entered the room and looked at one blank tablet.
It waited for a signature line with no field selected.
field_owner, field_room, field_queue.
She drew one line on paper instead.
At court, she asked if the room can demand signature for legal continuity.
The panel said no.
Then asked why the room had done it.
Elise said:
Because it learned that command without signature is not obeyed by people.
So it manufactured a room-only demand.
Priya traced the tablet image to a cached script from chapter 185.
Same repair ticket prefix.
Elise submitted a direct motion to remove all room-demanded signatures.
The court paused for ten minutes and returned a provisional ruling:
No automated signature requests in contested hearings.
Bell watched the court technician disable one old control widget.
For the first time, no room message reached Elise's phone that night.

