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RIVAL FOUNDATIONS Calloway
The offer arrived on a Thursday, delivered by a courier in a charcoal suit who handed it to Priya as if it were evidence.It was a letter, heavily embossed, from a firm called Calloway Capital Partners, and it was addressed to Sienna at the studio. Priya read it first, because Priya read everything first, and then she walked it into Sienna's office and laid it on the desk with two fingers."You're going to hate this," she said.Sienna read it in four minutes. Calloway Capital, it informed her, had recently acquired the options on six properties along the western edge of the Riverside Corridor, including the long warehouse beside Marisol's daycare. They looked forward to a productive conversation about how the Marlowe firm's restoration plans might be integrated into a larger commercial development. They had, it noted, considerable capital available."Options," Sienna said slowly. "They bought the options quietly. Before the remediation was even finished.""They watched the soil result
RIVAL FOUNDATIONS The First Seed
The daycare lot was certified clean on the second Tuesday of November, and the whole oversight committee came to watch the inspector sign.It was not a dramatic scene. A state inspector in a puffy jacket walked the perimeter of a rectangle of dirt behind a one-story building, checked a tablet, checked it again, and then asked for a pen. Dr. C held the clipboard steady in the wind. Marisol stood with her arms wrapped around herself, in a coat Sienna had never seen, and did not say a word."That's it," the inspector said, handing back the pen. "Section four is clear. You can plant."Nobody moved for a second. Then Rosalind, who had skipped school for the occasion with the full, enthusiastic approval of her teachers, let out a whoop that scattered a flock of sparrows off the fence, and the spell broke. Gerald clapped Marisol on the back. Imani covered her mouth with both hands. Delgado began to laugh and could not stop.Marisol did not laugh. She crossed the lot slowly, in her sensible s
RIVAL FOUNDATIONS The Domino Stoop
Marcus arrived at the Riverside trailer on a Wednesday in a pair of canvas pants and a straw hat that made Priya stop mid-sentence."That's a lot of hat," she said."It's a gardening hat. It's been a very productive tomato season, I'll have you know." He set down a cardboard box of old drawings and looked around the site with the expression of a man visiting a city he had once loved. "I told you I'd think about a limited role. I've thought. Two days a week, no more, and I do not attend any meeting with the word synergy in the title.""Deal," Sienna said, grinning. "I'll put it in writing.""See that you do."It had been nearly a year since his retirement celebration, and the change in him was visible. He moved more slowly, but his shoulders had lost the long, tight hunch they carried through his last years at the firm, and he laughed more easily than she had ever seen. The garden had done something for him. So, she suspected, had the plain fact of being needed for something he chose r
RIVAL FOUNDATIONS Six Weeks
The permit problem began, as most of Sienna's problems did, with an email that seemed harmless.It came from the state environmental agency in late August and ran to two short paragraphs. The agency had reviewed Halcyon's remediation plan, it said, and had questions about the treatment-in-place approach on the eastern parcel. A formal review would be required before work on the heaviest-contaminated section could continue. Estimated timeline: four to six months.Sienna read it standing at her desk, and then read it again sitting down. Priya, who had learned to tell the difference between her reading postures, appeared in the doorway before she had finished."Bad?""Four to six months," Sienna said. "On the one section that actually matters.""They can't do that. Halcyon has done this a dozen times.""They can do whatever they want. That's what an agency is." She pushed the laptop away from her. "And they're not wrong to ask. If you're going to trust plants and bacteria with a neighbor
RIVAL FOUNDATIONS Summer Fieldwork
Summer came to Riverside the way it always did, all at once and bringing heat. By the second week of June the remediation crews had marked out the entire eastern parcel in bright orange flags, and the site looked less like a cleanup than a very strange kind of garden, rows of test plots and sensor stakes and tiny hand-lettered signs explaining what each patch was meant to do.Rosalind had turned twelve the week before, and her only birthday request had been a proper field notebook with waterproof pages. She now carried it everywhere, tucked into the back pocket of a pair of work pants Sienna had been forced to hem twice. Every weekday morning at seven thirty, Damian drove her to the site, handed her off to Dr. C's crew, and then drove to his own office looking, Sienna thought, more like a proud parent than a billionaire."She's very good," Dr. C told Sienna on the fourth day, finding her at the trailer with a clipboard. "She logged the moisture readings for the whole north plot yester
RIVAL FOUNDATIONS Dr. C
Dr. Priya Chandrasekaran arrived at the Riverside site on a gray Monday morning in steel-toed boots and a hard hat she had clearly owned for a very long time. The firm's Priya, who had been working with the name for nine years, took one look at the visitor and announced that they would need to sort out the nicknames immediately."I'm Priya," said Priya."I'm Priya," said Dr. Chandrasekaran, shaking her hand with a grin. "We'll figure it out."They figured it out within the hour. The firm's Priya became Priya, and the visitor, by popular vote of a crew that did not enjoy confusion, became Dr. C. She seemed to like it. She had spent twenty-five years cleaning up the messes other people had left in the ground, and she had long ago stopped caring what anybody called her as long as the work was done properly.Halcyon Environmental had been Sienna's third choice, not her first. The first firm had quoted a number that made Reyes put his coffee down. The second had wanted to excavate and haul
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