Aldric Baum walked into the Pine Street building with two men behind him and stopped when he saw Karl.He had expected a meeting room. He got Karl standing in the center of the main office with his arms at his sides and his eyes doing the specific thing they did when he had already assessed every person in the space and made his decisions about all of them.Baum was fifty-three, broad, former military from his posture. He looked at Karl the way experienced people looked at Karl — with the immediate recalibration of someone who had just realized the room contained something they had not adequately planned for."Sit down," I said.They sat.The two representatives were exactly what he had described — European oversight directors. One from the German body, one from the Swiss. Both mid-fifties, both carrying the specific tension of people whose institutional authority was being publicly questioned for the first time."Cam first," I said."When the meeting—" Baum started."Cam first," I sa
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