November arrives cold and certain, the way it always does in this part of the country, not October's gradual cooling but the specific, decided cold of a season that has made up its mind. The trees on the eastern approach are bare now, which changes the threat picture in ways Gregor has been documenting since the first week of October, methodically, in the folder system he and Irina developed together over three weeks of working through her thirty year documentation.
They work together three mornings a week in the meeting room with the south facing window.
I did not plan this. It assembled itself from Irina's offer in the west wing corridor and Gregor's yes and the afternoon light Irina was correct about the kind that changes what is possible to say and thirty years of her documentation m
