The restructure took eleven weeks.Kael had said months and he'd meant it, but Lucian worked the way he did everything, with a precision that compressed timelines without appearing to rush them. He found the load-bearing points in the legal architecture the way Kael found them in acquisitions, identified what needed to move first and moved it, and the rest followed in the shape it was supposed to.They worked well together.That was the thing neither of them had said out loud and both of them had noticed.Not without friction. Lucian held information longer than was useful and Kael pushed back on it every time, and occasionally the pushing back became something louder than a boardroom should contain. He made decisions alone when he should have consulted and then presented them as considerations rather than conclusions, which Kael saw through immediately and said so. Lucian, for his part, had opinions about the pace of certain things that differed from Kael's and expressed them with a
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