Before she leaves for work, Naima gathers her people in the demiplane and talks through assignments at a leisurely, non-stressful pace. Then they all sleep, first the women and then the men, because nobody has yet, and they're far enough into the early morning to be exhausted by it. Then they spend all day doing their jobs, which for her means ignoring this entire situation and spending fourteen hours in mostly Kelesh and Vudra, giving babies their color back and elderly people their teeth, turning time into sorely needed gold. Élie tells her in the middle of the day that they've actually arranged to have almost all of the delegates raised today, in Absalom, and only have four of them resurrected by her. This is slightly cheaper, and more importantly gives the illusion that they are almost completely on top of things.

After work - after sunset - she gathers everyone together again, and takes reports. Fortunately, they don't have to think about justice, or about fixing the convention. Those are other people's headaches. Now that most of the bodies have been found, their headache is solely and exclusively the money.

"All right, Ishani, final budget shortfall?"