Chapter 60 - Chapter 60: The Steady Route

The overhead lights powered on at six a.m. Terminal screens loaded. Default feeds. Routing queues stable. Compliance flags cleared. No partition overrides. No manual reconciliations. Just dual verification running standard. Elena sat at the primary desk. Screen displayed the morning dispatch matrix. Carrier IDs blinking. Fuel brackets aligned. She entered routing weights. Verified staging priorities. Checked clearance tags. Screen accepted. Queue updated. Latency held at zero point three seconds. She logged the timestamp. Saved the file. Closed the window.