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Vasquez took the call at eight in the morning, on speaker, with Riley beside me at the kitchen table and the folder open between us with her color-coded tabs marking the relevant sections.
I made the introduction. My job: three sentences of context-setting, the formal framing of what we were bringing, the name of the proceeding we were requesting. Then I stopped talking.
Riley laid out the case.
She did it with the same quality she brought to engine diagnostics — the systematic presentation of a system that was not functioning as documented, with the discrepancy identified, the evidence of the discrepancy organized by type and source, the implications of the discrepancy stated plainly. She didn't editorialize. She didn't perform emotion. She presented what was true with the flat c
