Chapter 29 - The Sovereign Realm
The corporate treasury report for the third quarter arrived on her terminal with the silent efficiency that characterized every operation under her command. Profits were up seventeen percent across all sectors, insulated completely from global inflation by a brilliant series of commodity hedges and real estate acquisitions executed six months prior.
Claire buzzed through the intercom to announce the arrival of the senior legal counsel from Zurich. Zariah waved him in, listening impassumedly as he detailed the final steps of securing a tax-exempt sovereign trust in a neutral European jurisdiction. When he finished, she simply nodded, signed three digital documents with a cryptographic key, and dismissed him. She didn't celebrate milestones. Milestones were merely checkpoints on an infinite highway of expansion.
