REMI'S POV
The conversation happened.
Not arranged. Not preceded by any particular signal that it was coming on this day, at this time.
Okafor had confirmed the position was still favorable. The birth plan was on record. The Edinburgh first data collection had been submitted with Okafor's clarifications and the Edinburgh team had confirmed receipt and thanked us in the formal language of people who have spent twenty years looking for a case exactly like this and understand the weight of being granted access to it.
The working group's cross-jurisdictional framework draft had been completed on the thirtieth of March — three days ahead of the deadline I'd set myself, which was not something I typically managed, and which Holt had noted in his review email with the single word efficient,
