The approach came at 3:22 p.m.
The hearing was briefly recessed for a procedural matter — a scheduling conflict with an afternoon witness — and Fisk crossed the floor with one of his associates, his expression arranged into the specific neutrality of a man attempting to seem like he is not making a move while making a move.
Patricia stepped to meet him before he could reach the plaintiff's table.
Mia stayed seated. She watched from six feet away — the posture, the body language, the way Fisk kept his voice below the room's ambient noise while Patricia listened with her arms loosely crossed and her face giving nothing. It lasted four minutes. Then Fisk returned to his table and Patricia came back and sat beside Mia and opened her legal pad as though continuing a conversation already in p
