Henrik's expedition debrief, postponed multiple times by the term's accumulating crises, finally happened on a Saturday morning in late November, in the same training hall the expanded group used, with all twelve original expedition survivors present, plus Timothy, who'd asked to attend as an observer and had been welcomed without hesitation.
Henrik stood at the center of the circle they'd formed — chairs pulled into a configuration that had nothing to do with formal hierarchy and everything to do with people who needed to actually see each other's faces while talking about something difficult.
