Chapter 227. The Hearing-Inside
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I had been in courtrooms before. Corporate litigation, a partnership dispute in 2019. It was a fraud case that went on for two years and cost more than it recovered. I knew the pace of courts. The procedural language, the legal battle that surrounded the substance. I’m familiar with the way a courtroom moved like a formal argument with rules that both sides had agreed to follow and were watching each other to see who broke first.
This was different because Sedona was at the table. I sat in the gallery behind the bar and watched her back, and did the thing I had been doing my entire professional life, which was read rooms by the information they gave me rather than the information they announced. The set of Sedona's shoulders pulped up. That was th
