Zephyr restructured Seylith's arrangement in forty-three minutes.
Not because the problem was simple — it wasn't. The problem was structural, systemic, touching every interface between the Covenant's centralized authority and the Bloomist sub-religion's autonomous practices along the Pale Coast. But Zephyr had been thinking about the problem for longer than forty-three minutes. He'd been thinking about it since Seylith's initial integration — Year 180 AF, when a small goddess of Life and Tide had been absorbed into the Covenant through a negotiation that prioritized speed over specificity and that had left autonomy guarantees vaguely worded because vague words closed deals faster than precise ones.
