The Room That Spoke at Noon

Only one sentence:

I am still being used.

Priya mapped noon events and found this was exactly when manual queue overrides were disabled.

Elise used that fact to ask for one witness statement.

The room could not identify an owner.

Bell watched the room camera feed and said the audio came from a relay near chapter 127's corridor map.

In court, the prosecutor asked if this proves direct manipulation.

Elise answered: "It proves direct dependence."

They asked for all noon-synced events.

Most were in legal queue and two in hidden room routes.

At annex corridor 6, Priya installed a temporary logger and got one new line:

speak_when_needed.

No user.

Elise wrote the chapter's final note:

Noon now means the room decides when the case is real.