Elara
The email from my lawyer arrived on a Tuesday morning while I was standing at the photocopier waiting for pages of consortium documentation to reproduce themselves, leaving the mind entirely free to go wherever it wanted to go.
I'd been expecting a routine update. Instead the subject line read: Re: Prescott Cultural Heritage Initiative — Anonymous Donor.
I read it standing at the photocopier with the machine churning beside me.
A foundation structure had been registered in Delaware two days ago. The sole beneficiary was named as Elara Prescott. The purpose, as stated in the registration documents, was the funding of cultural repatriation research and artifact recovery initiatives.
The donor wishes to remain anonymous and has asked that no inquiry be made. The legal structure is
