Living together for optics meant sharing hallways, kitchens, nights, sunsets, breakfast fiscal charts, insomnia tragedies, umbrella-sharing terms page 9.
Lila discovered:
He never slept more than 2 hours
He drank coffee like a standing life decision
He reviewed world-city resilience blueprints at 3 AM
He feared car rides in storms
He knew 419% market loyalty but 0% emotional vulnerability sharing units
She discovered all this not by contract, but coexistence.
He discovered only one thing about her:
She was impossible to indirectly supervise without directly risking closeness.