_ Naomi _
The board ruled in her favour at eleven seventeen on a Friday morning, and the world did not change.
That was the first thing she noticed. She had expected — not fireworks, she was not a person who expected fireworks — but some acknowledgment from the universe that twenty-six years of theft had just been officially documented and officially condemned. Adaora Mensah read the finding in the precise, unhurried voice of a woman who had issued findings for thirty years and had long since separated the administrative act from the emotional content of what she was administering.
The duress challenge: dismissed with prejudice. The trust activation: affirmed. The original founding document, as authenticated and transmitted by Raymond Asare, establishing clear single-condition activatio
