A term in a facility is a thing that happens to Damian; restitution is a thing that happens to the eight hundred, a slow returning of what was theirs.

I had never been especially interested in his suffering.

I had been interested, start to finish, in the books balancing, and restitution was the entry that finally made them balance.

Camilla cooperated with the investigators, which spared her prison but not much else.

Her professional licenses were revoked.

The career she had traded everything for was simply gone, and she left the city quietly afterward, to begin again somewhere smaller, at the bottom of a ladder she had once stood much higher on.

I took no particular satisfaction in any of it.