Two organized people had prepared extensively for two newborns.
They had the systems. The schedules. The color-coded spreadsheet that Caelan had built and Seren had refined and which had seemed, in the weeks before the birth, like a comprehensive and functional framework for managing the early weeks.
The spreadsheet had lasted four days.
Not because it was badly built. It was excellently built. It was the most well-structured document either of them had ever produced.
It was simply that Eli and Cara had not consulted it.
Eli had opinions about sleep.
Specifically, he had the opinion that sleep was something that happened when he decided it happened, on a schedule he was developing privately and had not yet shared. He communicated this opinion consistently, comprehensively, and at a volume that suggested he had inherited Adrian's approach to the things that mattered.
Cara slept.
