Chapter 102

Aria's POV

Beth's notebook contained forty pages by the time she showed me the full contents.

Not a proposal. She'd been clear about that distinction from the beginning, and the contents bore it out — this was thinking, not pitching. She'd written about what practitioners lost when they spent years working without structured reflection time. About the specific kind of knowledge that accumulated in experienced teachers and then died with them because nobody had ever created conditions for its transmission. About what she'd observed in Aldric's journals and Gorvan's field practice and Evi's midpoint observations and Orrin's honest account of productive incompetence.

She'd written: *The alliance produces knowledge....