CHAPTER 40Elara did not decide immediately.She read the proposal again that morning, slower than before, not because she had missed anything, but because she needed to understand how it would fit into everything else that already existed. The structure of the project was clear. The expectations were defined. The timelines were aggressive but manageable. Nothing about it felt careless.That was what made the decision harder.If it had been flawed, she could have dismissed it.If it had been reckless, she could have refused it.Instead, it was precise.She closed the folder and set it aside, then opened her notebook and began listing what accepting it would require. Not in abstract terms. In hours. In conflicts. In adjustments that would not ask permission before they happened.The first thing she wrote down was time.Not the kind that could be borrowed or rearranged quietly around someone else's schedule. This project would not sit politely in the margins of her work. It would take a
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