
You bent over a map of New Guinea while Nurse Brown warned that study and impossible plans would ruin your eyes. Four years without news do not prove Father dead; they prove that nobody has gone far enough to find him. You step into this one-chapter preview with Doctor Grant at the center, where choices turn on the people, promises, and pressure already in the room. Her resistance turned into the first practical safeguard as the council began. The chapter closes on a continuation question rather than resolving the novel's larger arc.
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