Margaret announced her intention to step back from her role as general counsel in early December, a decision she delivered to Sebastian privately before informing the board, and one that surprised him considerably less than he told Wren it probably should have.
"She's been building toward it for weeks," he said, the evening after the conversation, sitting across from Wren in his study with the particular thoughtful stillness he'd developed since the vote. "Not resigning outright — she was careful about that distinction, and I understood why the moment she made it. She wants to move into an advisory capacity, train her eventual successor properly, remain available for the board through the transition period. But the daily authority, the position that let her make the kind of unilateral dec
