# Chapter 16: Welcome Aboard
Two weeks.
Ryan stood at the window of his apartment and tried to reconcile the person standing there with the one who'd sat on a park bench with two hundred bucks and nowhere to be.
It didn't quite compute. Not because things had changed – they had, drastically – but because of the speed of it. Two weeks felt like the wrong unit of measurement for how much ground had been covered.
Rebuild Tech LLC was registered and active, the EIN sitting in a folder Sophie had created and labeled with the kind of organizational precision that made Ryan feel slightly embarrassed about every filing cabinet he'd ever owned. Business bank account opened. Operating agreement drafted and signed. Employment contracts sent out and countersigned by all five.
All five.
That part still caught him sometimes.
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