Thaddeus did not know the figure.

And the one human being in the world with both the right and the standing to ask was in a workshop forty miles away with four anchor bolts in the floor, keeping a vow he had made in a truck.

Part Forty-Four: Surcharge

Judge Sowande’s order came out on the seventh of November 2025 and it is thirty-four pages.

I am going to give the operative part, because it is the reason any of this exists, and because it is four sentences long and it answers my mother’s answer.

A trustee’s duty of loyalty does not arise from supervision and is not diminished by its absence.