Kai pulled a chair from the wall and sat across from his mother.He told her about Osei. The planning objection. The Creston Development firm. The three completed eastern district projects. The fourth in planning that competed directly with Mercer East for the same tenant profile. And the connection Marcus had found in the cooperative agreement. Osei's name in Han's network. Payments twice across five years for favorable planning outcomes.His mother listened without interrupting.When he finished she was quiet for a moment.She looked at the sketches on her desk. The preliminary lines of what she had been working toward for six weeks. What fourteen people had been building toward alongside her. What the crew on the eastern district site had been positioning equipment for since six that morning when Sorrell's modified foundation plan went into effect.Then she looked at Kai."Is the objection technically grounded?" she said."Marcus is pulling the full filing," Kai said. "We will know