Two days passed before the council reconvened formally to address Threnody's remarkable, fragmented request — Rodriguez insisting on that brief interval specifically to allow Rama and Sekar genuine, protected time with their newly-born daughter before institutional demands required their continued involvement.
"I want to name something before we proceed," Rodriguez said, opening the reconvened session with characteristic institutional care. "What we're discussing represents genuine possibility this crisis has never previously approached — not merely managing Threnody's continued stabilization, but actively expanding what relationship with it might genuinely become."
Timeline, present through the connection with careful, considered attention, offered the specific proposal it had been developing throughout the preceding days.
