Two weeks.
He used them.
Not urgently — deliberately. The specific use of time before a significant departure that was different from ordinary time in the way that the departure morning's breakfast was different from ordinary breakfast.
Not because the work before was more important than the ordinary work.
Because the ordinary work was what made the departure possible and the return worth having.
He sat at oversight board sessions.
He walked the Ashrow in the evenings.
He attended the seventh class's foundation sessions — not teaching, sitting at the back the way he had sat at the back of every class since the first, watching the work develop in the people doing it.
The seventh class was the most diverse the school had seen.
