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Lena Ortiz wanted the notebook back in the bag before anyone in the room treated it as a sample . The startup had come for a licence . Dr . Alan Reeves had come ready to explain , and explaining , for him , meant opening the book . They sat in a small room off the transfer office . Ruth Keller , counsel for the company , had a draft on her side of the table that nobody had signed . Alan kept the notebook under his hand , the way a person holds a thing they are proud of . Ruth smiled and said her engineers only needed to see how the method worked , so they could tell the board it was real . Lena had heard that friendly request before . She did not believe a look stayed a look . Once those pages crossed the table , the office would no longer know who had seen them . Alan wanted the hour to feel easy . He had lived with the method for a long time , and he was tired of rooms where the work was spoken of as a file . He glanced at Lena and said he could show the pages with the sketch and stop there . Ruth said that would be enough . Lena wanted a different sentence from him . The university would hand over a short summary . The notebook would stay closed . If the company wanted the method , they would take a licence , and the licence would say what they could see . She did not make a speech . She set a single cleared sheet in the middle of the table and kept her palm on the notebook until Alan let go . She said the sheet was what they could have in this room . The rest was not a courtesy she was refusing out of habit . It was the part a licence is meant to control . Ruth's smile thinned . She said her engineers would call a summary a stall . Lena said they could call it that and still read it . If it was not enough , the meeting could end , and the notebook would leave with Alan . Ruth read the sheet . She did not reach again . She said she would take it to the engineers , and that she would not pretend she had seen the method itself . Alan closed the notebook , slower than Lena liked , and put it in the bag at his feet . Lena walked them to the lift . She did not add a lesson in the corridor . When the doors shut , she looked once to see the bag on his shoulder , and then she went back to mark the sheet as sent .
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