I spent the next three days at the Bellwether, checking invoices, tracing material orders, and asking each contractor to confirm which work had come from my drawings.
The practical details helped. A stone supplier could not care whether I was a stand-in. A mason could tell me exactly how much the wall had shifted since the first survey. I could measure, decide, and move forward.
The foundation's legal counsel, Adrian Cole, met me in the site office with a file of copied correspondence. He had permission from Celia to review the project record, but he didn't have access to Ethan's private archive.
"I can't determine what Ethan intended," Adrian said. "I can determine what the foundation represented to donors."
"Is the current exhibit misleading?"
"It could be interpreted that way."
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