Gael was nothing if not a fast learner. There was a new and academic tone to the law office where he now worked. People carried themselves with a rather careless authority as if they’d mastered the world and there wasn’t an authority in the world that could tell them otherwise.

By lunch he was done watching and was able to join the other junior lawyers at the firm, not the other two interns, but the junior lawyers. By the end of the day he had found his way onto a small legal team doing simple paperwork.