The legal team came back on Wednesday.
Not with a summary. Not with a preliminary assessment or a we need more time or any of the careful hedging language that lawyers used when they were not yet certain what they were looking at. They came back with a specific name and a specific date and a document that had been buried so efficiently inside the administrative layers of the Veristand integration that finding it had required three days of focused searching by two people who knew exactly what they were looking for.
Damien called me from the office at four.
He said: Are you in the library.
I said: yes.
He said: stay there. I am coming home.
He arrived at four forty.
He came directly to the library and sat across from me and set his phone on the table between us with a document open on
