What I felt instead, as each outcome came through, was something quieter and stranger and much more durable: a sense of order restored.

Of a thing that had been out of true being brought back into true.

They had spent years building their comfort on a foundation of theft and on the back of a woman they had decided did not count, and the law had simply, finally, made the numbers reconcile.

I am a person who needs the numbers to reconcile.

When they did, I felt not joy but rest.

Vance Global Logistics survived.