Mira calls an emergency meeting three days later, exhaustion evident despite the visible excitement driving her through what's clearly been several sleepless nights of research.
"I found it," she announces, spreading printouts across Talia's dining table, the same space that's hosted countless strategy sessions across decades of shared fight. "The currency. It's not lifespan, not memory. It's something considerably more abstract."
"What is it?" I ask.
"Reputation," Mira says. "Or more specifically, trust. Vivienne's built a system that extracts and trades people's social credibility, their standing within professional and personal networks."
The concept sits strange and unfamiliar, considerably different from anything we've previously encountered throughout this extended fight.
"How d
