it had still taken Viola St. Julien months to get the right people in the room. Months of feeling people out, not simply to secure agreement on immediate action, but to find kindred souls who sensed the logic behind those actions. Beyond this room, this meeting, they could play out the art of the possible, could build towers from the sordid little compromises that were the life and limitation of nation-states. But the heart of the work needed passion and ideals powerful enough to carry their goal over all those barriers. Otherwise the long game would play out like one of those cartoons where
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