The planning took four days.
Not because the logistics were complex—the memorial visits were established practice, the five cities known, the timing fixed by annual tradition. Because the question of how Timeline's participation should manifest required thinking through carefully before anything was proposed or committed to.
Rama brought the question to Rodriguez first. Not to get permission—the Ambassador role had clarified that distinction across four months of work—but because Rodriguez deserved to be part of thinking through something that would affect Coalition's public memorial practice.
Rodriguez listened to the full account: Timeline's request, the quality of it, what Timeline had communicated about five years of mourning alongside Coalition without Coalition knowing. When Rama finished, Rodriguez was quiet for a moment.
"What does Timeline actually want?" he asked. Practical question, appropriate starting point.
