The Varga Decker alliance formalization happens at two in the afternoon in the operations room.
The framework my mother built is twelve pages of legitimate financial architecture and operational structure, signed at the bottom by Lucien and Marcus with Reth as witness and my mother as the financial officer of record, a title she accepted this morning with the specific, contained composure of someone receiving something they have been building toward for a long time without knowing the destination.
It takes eleven minutes to sign.
Twenty seven days of compound life and four years of Marcus Lucien cold distance and thirty years of Marre's network and everything that threaded between them resolved in eleven minutes of signatures in the afternoon light.
I watch from the edge of the room.
