NEVA POV
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Mitch put the finished brief in front of me the next morning.
Physical paper, which told me before I'd read a word that this was a document he considered important enough to require the specific formality of print — his digital work was thorough and instant and disposable in a way that mattered to him, but the things he wanted treated as permanent, he printed.
This was printed.
"It's complete," he said. "Everything. I'd like you to read it before the testimony. All of it. And then—" He paused, which was unusual for Mitch, whose sentences rarely required pausing to complete. "I built it for you to present. Not for the council to simply receive. I structured it as testimony, in your voice, so that when you stand in that chamber you're not reading someone else's account of E
