If he’d asked her advice, which he never did, she would have said, It’s easy. Just don’t cross your arms or jiggle your knee. Those are called tells. The consultants had him dead to rights. He was compelled to admit it: equity was the goal. Urban planning might be the task at hand, but the larger goal was equity. The mouth moved. It said, Go equity! Equity onboarding! But so did the knee. And it said, This is such bullshit.
The way she stretches out a scene
