KAELRITH
There was a version of last night's that required ceremony and a version that required efficiency, and I had spent six years confusing the two, and I was not going to confuse them tonight.
I had three things to write before I left, and I wrote them in order of difficulty, with the easiest first and the hardest last, because I had learned in six years of Alpha authority that difficulty deferred did not diminish and that the only honest approach to hard things was to arrive at them after the easier things had been completed rather than before.
The governance instruction went to my Gamma. Twelve pages. Comprehensive. The tribunal's procedural architecture, the territory's administrative requirements in my absence, the specific chain of authority that would function correctly wheth
