The lawyers arrived at nine in the morning.
Two of them. Both in dark suits, both carrying bags thick with documents, both wearing the particular expression of professionals who have been briefed on a complicated situation and have decided to treat it as a technical problem rather than a human one. Damien let them in and showed them to the sitting room and came to find me in the kitchen where I was eating breakfast with the careful normalcy of a person trying to establish that breakfast was still a thing that happened regardless of how many lawyers were in the next room.
He sat across from me.
He said: this will take most of the day. It does not require you to be present for all of it but there will be a point where they need to speak with you directly. To understand the full sequence o
