The auditors made their offer on the twenty-ninth day and they made it in a cultivation yard.
Nobody had arranged a hall for it and nobody had prepared any ceremony. The senior auditor asked for a session, and Emilia's bracing was the only roof available.
Four hundred people could have fitted under it and eleven were present. Diana carried the whole session live at the auditors' own suggestion, which Vasa noted twice.
An office that wants a deal watched by a country is an office confident of the terms.
Vasa had spent nine days expecting a private session with a written instrument. What arrived instead was three people asking to be recorded while they made an offer.
She checked the feed authentication herself a full hour before the session opened. Diana's operators had it on the same national line that carried the reading of the spine.
What they offered was simple, and worth more than anything Ardent had put on a table.
