NEVA POV
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Torval Sen called the compound the morning after Pell left.
Mitch took the call, since Torval Sen's registered channel connected to Mitch's line by default now — a small administrative fact that told its own story about how many witnesses had accumulated around this testimony in the past weeks.
"He wants to come," Mitch reported, finding me in the kitchen. "In person. He says there's something he needs to say directly, not through documentation." He paused. "He also said, and I'm quoting directly, that he doesn't have unlimited time left to say it."
I looked up from Ren's morning bottle.
"He's ninety-one," I said. "How urgent."
"He didn't specify," Mitch said. "But the way he phrased it suggested he wasn't being dramatic. Just accurate."
I thought about Torval Sen — th
