Dael's numbers arrived on the morning of the third day.
Not through a message — Dael had been sitting with the documentation continuously for three days, updating in real time as the data flowed through the node network and the threading and the correction workers' field reports and the wellspring's outflow quality and the aggregate cost readings Oren was tracking hourly.
Dael looked up from the documentation at dawn on the third day and said:
"Eighteen months."
He looked at them.
