The Ancestral Watch · Book One
Chapter One
The Canyon Within
What appears to happen to you is happening for you.
Every one of them had built a life that looked right from the outside. That was the thing the circle had in common — nine executives and two who were not, gathered from wherever in the world they had made their names.
A woman who ran a fund in London. A founder from São Paulo. A man from a Tokyo trading house who was used to a car and a driver and a floor of people who moved when he moved.
And sitting among them as equals, a schoolteacher who had emptied a modest savings account to be there, and a young man barely out of his twenties who had paid nothing at all…
