Two hours later the formal presentation had dissolved into the networking half of the evening.
Conversations broke into smaller clusters across the hall while glasses were refilled and the corporate performance relaxed slightly into something that looked more like conversation but was still mostly deals being arranged at a more comfortable distance from the stage.
James moved through the room when approached and kept most exchanges short. He found Finn again near the bar section where Finn was nursing a glass of water with the expression of a man who had been offered alcohol twelve times and turned it down twelve times because his father was thirty feet away.
"How many more hours," Finn said.
"At least two."
"That's optimistic."
