NEVA POV
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The pitch document arrived on day eight.
Twenty-three pages. Full color. The kind of document that told you immediately how much money had gone into its production, which was the point — this was a wealth performance as much as a business communication, every font choice and margin width saying *we have resources and we are comfortable with you knowing that.*
Mitch read it in thirty minutes.
Arden read it in twelve.
I know the timings because Ziko was watching them both from the doorway of the back room with the specific competitive energy of someone who'd decided this was a race and had opinions about the outcome. He reported the timings to the table. Mitch did not acknowledge this. Arden looked up from the document at minute twelve with the expression of a man who'd fo
