They told the pack everything on a Sunday.Julian had wanted to do it sooner. Claire had said: give me two weeks. Give me time to have the framework built enough that the disclosure comes with the shape of the response attached — not managed information, just sequenced. Fear with no direction was chaos. Fear with a direction was people who knew which way to move.She had the framework by the end of the second week. Mara-Lena had produced a document. Her mother had reviewed it. Parks had added the medical annotations. Adler had confirmed the Council's formal recognition of the threat, which had required its own separate conversation that had lasted three days and consumed two Council emergency sessions and had ended with Adler saying, in the specific tone she used for conclusions she had worked very hard to arrive at and was now committed to: "We support North Ridge's response structure. What do you need from us?"The Sunday meeting was held in the main hall because that was where four
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