The subcommittee meeting in the second week of November was the longest one they had held.
Seven hours, broken by two brief recesses, with Kael and his four committee members and Elowen in her advisory capacity and Seraphine representing Moonhaven's clinical interests and Cassia, whom Elowen had asked to attend as a case witness with the committee's agreement, sitting quietly at the table's end with her documentation folder.
The expanded framework language had gone through eleven drafts.
Elowen had read every one of them and had returned notes on every one of them, the specific and exacting notes of someone who understood that legal language either protected or failed to protect at the level of individual words and that general language was the bureaucratic mechanism by which well-inten
