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The formal session with Silas lasted four hours.

Marcus ran it with the methodical precision he brought to everything that needed a record, asking questions in the order that built the clearest picture, never pushing faster than the answers allowed, noting everything in the specific shorthand he'd developed over years that I had never been able to fully decipher. Corvin was present for the sections about the compound and its variants, asking the technical questions I wouldn't have known ...