Sleep is a governance strategy.

Exhausted people sign things they should not sign.”

I laughed, surprising myself.

It had been a long time since a sentence about governance sounded like care.

When the meeting began, I did not lower my voice to make the men more comfortable.

I did not raise it to prove I could.

I spoke at the volume of a person who expected to be heard because the work required hearing.

Later that day I passed the glass wall of the finance wing and saw the junior accountant I had written to after the audit.