The Ivory shareholder session opened at the ninth hour in a chamber holding seven board seats, with two hundred and six shareholders seated above them. Every word went out on an open Association line, applied for eleven days earlier under the licensing arrangement Luna Marr signs.
The board stood four to three against Regina Vance before anybody had spoken, a figure her father assembled over nine weeks. She counted it herself walking in, then wrote it at the head of her working sheet without any comment beside it.
A room is not lost in the minute it turns, since a room turns some time before anybody inside it notices.
Alder Vance is eighty-one, so he asked for the floor from a seated position with a clerk holding paper he did not need. He tabled nine minutes and forty seconds of recovered carrier footage under the house evidence rule, then asked that it play once without commentary.
