Xyra launched into her explanation with the focused energy of someone who had been waiting to deliver this report and was going to do it properly.
She wasn't trying to claim all the credit — she made that clear up front. Without the World Fragment, none of this would have been possible.
A rank three fragment feeding into an incomplete world was the foundation on which everything else had been built, and that foundation had come from Leon's luck or fate or whatever particular quality of his existence kept producing impossible outcomes. She acknowledged that plainly.
But her credit was real too, and she wasn't going to pretend otherwise. The merger had taken eight days instead of the predicted week. Eight days of sustained, intensive focus that had consumed her completely — no breaks, no attention to anything else happening in the world she was a part of.
