He pulled the plastic cap off the tube and rolled a sheet of heavy white drafting paper out across the flat rock.

He weighed down the four corners with smooth beach pebbles he picked out of the grass.

“The city zoning board signed off on the commercial building permit Tuesday,” Theo said.

I moved closer and looked down at the blue ink lines of the foundation plan.

The main drafting room wall was drawn entirely in double-paned glass, facing north toward the cove.

“You kept the structural footings from my original sketch,” I said.