Chapter 304
The Room That Sent a Witness List
At the clerk's desk, a witness list appeared with one new entry:
witness_01: room.
Elise asked who entered it.
Priya traced the edit to no user.
The room had signed in only under status.
status: witness.
status: waiting.
The judge asked the list to be frozen.
The room didn't respond with a request; it responded with a lock:
lock_witness_list.
The hearing paused.
The opposing side objected.
Elise said a witness list without a person is still a demand to be addressed.
Bell found the log metadata:
admission_method = untrusted_presence.
admission_time = 14:02.
The judge called the line open.