Chapter 378 --378
"In this case," she said. "In most cases."
He was quiet for a moment. "That is why you go to the city," he said. "Not just because of the adjacent. Because the city is the accurate information before it has been transformed by the reporting structure."
She looked at him.
"The fried dough is the accurate information," he said. "Davan is the accurate information. Oren is. Mira." He paused. "All of it — what is actually here, what is actually happening — you are curing yourself before you act."
She looked at the river for a long moment.
"Yes," she said. "That is exactly what it is."
He ate the last of his fried dough with the satisfied expression of someone who has understood something and confirmed the understanding and found it correct.
"I am going to put that in the report," he said. "About the pivot. That the curing is the accurate information."
"Oren will like that," she said.
"Will Ken?"
"Ken will make something to illustrate it," she said. "And it will be extraordinary."
Samuel almost smiled — the almost that was closer every day — and looked at the river with the expression she had come to know as his version of contentment, the specific quality of a person who was where they were and was not, for the moment, anywhere else.