She was in the middle of something when it happened.
Not anything significant. She had been going through a set of correspondence that had accumulated over the week, the kind of administrative follow-through that came with the new framework, questions from people in outlying territories who had seen the public information notices and wanted to understand what the code meant for their specific circumstances. She had been doing it for two hours with the steady focused attention of someone working through a known task, and she was roughly halfway through when she stopped.
She did not know why she stopped.
She put the pen down.
She sat back in the chair.
