The corporate ethics conference was Clara's idea.
She called Aria on a Monday morning with the particular efficiency of someone who had already decided something and was presenting it as a question purely as courtesy.
"The National Corporate Accountability Summit," Clara said. "Chicago. Three weeks. They want a keynote speaker who can speak to the Cole Enterprises case from the inside." A pause. "I recommended you."
Aria looked at her framework document. "I'm not a keynote speaker," she said.
"You gave an eight minute statement in a federal sentencing hearing that made a room full of attorneys go completely silent," Clara said. "You're a keynote speaker."
Aria looked at her ceiling. "How long?"
"Thirty minutes. Possibly questions after." A pause. "Aria — this is the industry-wide acc
