Lena's POV
The four hours passed in a blur of controlled activity.
Reeves coordinating. Catherine being walked through what her testimony needed to cover and how not coached, Damian was careful about that, but oriented. Given the shape of what was needed so she could find the right words herself. The lawyer arrived at five in the morning, a precise woman in her fifties who looked at the assembled situation with the calm of someone who had seen significantly worse and got immediately to work.
I stayed out of the operational parts.
Not because I was told to — we were past that. But because I understood instinctively what I could contribute and what I couldn't, and the legal architecture of what they were building wasn't my terrain.
What was my terrain was the folder.
I worked through i
