And they looked at me and saw an inconvenient signature standing between them and full possession of it all.

Take the signature, they reasoned, and the rest is yours.

But that is not how a structure works, and I of all people knew it, because I had built this one.

The foundation carries the weight.

It holds the weight even when it is buried out of sight, even when no one moving through the bright rooms above ever thinks about it, even when the people living in the house have forgotten it is there.

I had not merely bought some shares in Flynn’s company.