The Heiress he never met
"Seventy-four years old, still living, as far as the records show. She's the granddaughter of Elias's younger son — a branch of the family that split off from your line sometime around 1955, before the patent dispute even began. If the records are accurate, she likely has no idea any of this happened at all. Her branch left before the worst of it, moved out of the industry entirely, and from what I can tell, never kept much connection to whatever remained of Elias's story afterward."
Wren sat with the printed family tree for a long time, tracing the branching lines with her finger, feeling the particular strangeness of discovering, on paper, an entire network of blood relations she'd had no