*Vanessa*

“Everything’s gone a lot more smoothly than I could’ve imagined,” Elder Henley says. He chuckles to himself, shaking his head. “I’ll acknowledge that I was rather skeptical when you first introduced the idea, Shawn, but it’s gone rather well.”

The other Elders at the meeting seem to concur. Shawn inclines his head at them.

“Well, we have a strong team. Everyone standing in front of you here more than ...