DAMIEN'S POV
November arrived and the Henry Chen catalogue became real.
Elara had found a small independent publisher in Vancouver through Claire's network, a woman named Patricia Yuen who specialized in art documentation and understood immediately what the project was trying to do. They had one meeting and Patricia sent a contract within the week.
I stayed entirely out of it.
Not because I wasn't interested but because I'd learned the difference between interest and involvement, and this was Elara's project in a way that required me to be interested without being involved. I asked questions when she wanted to talk about it. I didn't offer solutions she hadn't asked for.
That distinction had taken time to learn.
She was at the dining table on a Saturday morning with the transcript do
