LOGINVictor's health took a difficult turn in the third week of November, the news arriving through a call from Mrs. Okafor that carried more urgency than her usual updates. Adrian booked a flight to Chicago within the hour, and Sophia offered to come with him, understanding immediately that this visit c
The CADE situation resolved fully in mid-November, the news arriving through a joint statement Sophia's legal team helped negotiate with Webb's own counsel — Meridian Capital formally withdrawing its European investment, CADE restructuring to focus exclusively on the US market where it no longer pos
Noah worked on the oral history for nearly three weeks after the Victor interview, disappearing into his room most evenings after homework with a focus Sophia recognized as identical to whatever drove her own late nights building LexNova in its earliest, most uncertain years — the specific, absorbed
Noah's interview with Victor happened over video call on a Saturday afternoon, the whole family gathered loosely around it — Sophia in the kitchen doorway, Adrian at the counter, both of them ostensibly occupied with other tasks while actually listening to every word. Noah had prepared more questio
Noah announced the project at breakfast in late October with the particular gravity he reserved for undertakings he considered genuinely significant, setting down a notebook Sophia hadn't seen before — separate from his bird journal, its cover blank and waiting. "I'm doing an oral history," he said
The partnership structure with Isabelle Dumont's Lexique AI took shape over several weeks of careful calls and even more careful legal drafting, the two women building something neither had initially set out to construct but which, the more detail they added, looked increasingly like exactly the rig







