Chapter 15 · free to read
The final was in nineteen hours. The band had been on that bench for two days and nobody had picked it up.
He did not campaign. He asked questions, in order, and let the room build the answer itself.
He had faced eight thousand people and not felt this. Twenty-two men can be a much larger crowd.
The captaincy had gone. The thing that made him a captain would not leave when it was asked to.
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