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Chapter 502: Whitmore Leadership Gap
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2026-03-29 18:32:43The absence announced itself slowly.
Not through chaos or overt struggle, but through hesitation. Decisions that should have taken hours stretched into days. Committees deferred votes that once would have been automatic. Language softened, then blurred, then disappeared into procedural fog.
Lillian noticed it before anyone named it.
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