Chapter 75 - Chapter 75: The Studio

Three days passed after the EU meeting. They were not empty days — there were emails to answer, calls to return, a growing stack of grant applications that needed to be catalogued and held for Dr. Osei's arrival, a preliminary budget review for the fund's first quarter of independent operation — but they moved at a gentler pace than the weeks that had preceded them. The meeting had gone well, and the team could feel it. The tension that had been coiled in the office since the fund's announcement began to loosen, replaced by a quiet, steady confidence that they were on the right track.