SERA
“She is leaving on Friday.”
Priya said it at the kitchen table on a Wednesday morning in January with the tone she used when delivering information she considered significant and was watching to see how it landed.
Sera looked up from the law school orientation materials. January had arrived carrying multiple beginnings simultaneously. Law school on the fourteenth. The institute’s third year underway with five active cases. The compound in phase three trials. The bill scheduled for full legislative vote in March. The book in its second printing six weeks after publication.
“How long,” she said.
“Six months. She was offered a fellowship at the University of Ghana’s legal research center. She applied eight months ago without telling anyone because she did not want the decision influ
