Wren finished the restoration of the original patent drawings in early February, three months of painstaking work that had consumed every free hour she could carve out of the archive project's broader demands, and she called Sebastian into the small conservation room Foster had cleared for her use before she let anyone else, including Dr. Okafor, see the finished result.
"I wanted you to be the first," she told him, standing beside the worktable where the drawings lay under proper glass, stabilized and legible for the first time in over six decades. "Not because it's yours to see before anyone else's. Because you're the reason I got the chance to do this work at all, and I wanted you to understand what it actually took before it becomes a museum piece everyone else gets to look at without
