The formal status review takes four days.
Council procedures are exact about this kind of thing: documented findings, independent verification, an opportunity for the subject to present counter-evidence. Lydia does present — through legal representation, her family's attorney, a human-law specialist who knows exactly which pack-adjacent regulations apply and which don't.
It doesn't change the outcome.
The evidence is what it is.
I don't attend the review sessions. Not because I'm excluded — technically my operational appointment gives me a seat at most formal proceedings. I stay away because Lydia spending four days defending herself against evidence I helped build doesn't require my presence to become fact. The record doesn't need me in the room to continue existing.
Damon attends.
