The document was taking longer than the first one.
That had been easier — vague by design, dense enough to look substantial, the kind of thing that required significant legal work to fully analyze and would reveal its inadequacy slowly rather than immediately. Ray had received it, called it workable, and moved on.
This one needed to be better.
Not better in the sense of more useful to Ray — better in the sense of more convincing. The difference between the two things was the entire architecture of what she was doing. The first document had bought her time. This one needed to buy her more.
She'd spent the morning building it.
