The eight days passed the way meaningful time always passes — too quickly in the moments that mattered and with excruciating deliberateness in the ones between.
The supplementary brief on quantification methodology was completed and submitted within forty-eight hours as promised, Advocate Renne having produced a document so precisely argued that when I reviewed the draft at six in the morning over my first cup of tea I found exactly two suggestions for revision, both minor, both incorporated into the final version before noon.
Maren Ash acknowledged receipt within the day.
No commentary. No preliminary indication of the panel's reception. Just the formal acknowledgment that the document had been received and would be considered.
"She's good," Cael observed, reading the acknowledgment.
