The dormancy reversal took three days.
Not because the process was complicated. Cass walked my mother through the covenant-level withdrawal mechanism in reverse, the two of them working at the kitchen table with Oren's notation system and the Caldwell documents and the specific focused quiet of people doing delicate technical work. What took three days was my mother's body remembering what it had been asked to forget.
She didn't talk much about what it felt like. She answered direct questions precisely and volunteered nothing, which I was starting to understand was not reticence but consideration. She didn't want to describe something in a way that shaped my expectation of it before I'd experienced it myself.
What I observed: on the first day, she moved carefully, the way people move wh
