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He came home on the one hundred and forty-third day.
Not because the work outside was finished. The work outside the kingdom would continue for — longer than he could estimate. The methodology was propagating through the network. The correction workers were running the between-space work in their territories. The school was training the practitioners who would carry the work to places the network hadn't yet reached.
The work was larger than him.
That was when coming home was right.
When the work was larger than the person and the person had given what was specifically theirs to give and the larger work could sustain itself without their specific presence.
He felt this on the one hundred and fortieth day.
Not as a decision — as a recognition.
