Three words. High praise. I was at the desk the following morning when a message arrived from the Edinburgh team — not a formal data update, an informal note from Dr. Fenwick, the lead researcher, addressed to me directly and not through the research inbox. It said: I want you to know that E-7 is, in our twenty years of looking, the case we built the framework to find. The preliminary note was careful, as preliminary notes must be. What I can tell you informally is that the data has continued to develop exactly as the model predicted. When we publish — eighteen months, perhaps two years — the E-7 case will be the center of the paper. Not the whole paper. But the center. A pause in the text, visible as white space, the way careful writers create space. She is remarkable. Not because of wh

