Chapter 90Aria's POV

The joint document took shape across winter in the way good collaborative work does — through correspondence that gradually stopped feeling like correspondence and started feeling like thought.

Gorvan wrote in long careful paragraphs that contained more than they initially appeared to. You'd read a section and think you understood it and then read it again the following morning and find something you'd missed. Beth wrote in precise structured sections that said exactly what they meant the first time and were better for it. My contributions tended toward the space between — the connective tissue, the places where Gorvan's framework and Beth's structure needed to be shown...