Veylan read the new restriction before he looked at the practice result. I had placed them in the other order.
"No further releases yesterday," he said.
"I stopped."
"Since then?"
"Rest. No release."
He checked the hand and made me move the fingers while the duty attendant watched. The small split had stayed closed under the fresh dressing. The old tenderness remained where neither of them could see it.
"Low setting only," the attendant said. "Stop if the pain changes."
Veylan put the note beside the assessment sheet.
"Then the existing limits remain. You are demonstrating the approved method, not proving the family estimate of your strength."
He said it where the people waiting could hear. I preferred the sentence to the alternative. I still wished it had required fewer witnesses.
