The three remaining cases took four months.
Not because they were the most difficult work he had done — the Drevenmoor extraction had been harder, the Venmoor institutional negotiation had been more complex, the wellspring had required the specific function that nothing before had required.
They took four months because four months was the pace at which the work could be done honestly.
The two northern territories: remote, the correction work requiring sustained presence because the terrain meant the school's graduates couldn't easily reach them and the correction workers in the network hadn't yet extended that far. He went north with Oren in the second month. The territories were what he expected — the wound present, the between-space thin, the root networks dense with the specific character of places that had been in the full absence longer than their geography suggested.
He did the work.
Oren supported the fragment expressions.
The school's methodology running.
