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Chapter 65: Nathaniel Arrives Unexpectedly
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2026-01-01 20:09:10
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The testing began subtly.Not with defiance, not with confrontation, but with small movements designed to feel reasonable. Plausible. The kind of actions that could be explained away as oversight or urgency if questioned.Nathaniel noticed the first one before Marcus flagged it.A procurement approval routed through an outdated authority path. Not illegal. Not hidden. Just familiar. The old system breathing through muscle memory.Nathaniel declined it without comment and forwarded it to the oversight queue.An hour later, a second request appeared. This one time sensitive. A regional partnership renewal framed as essential to maintaining market confidence. The language was sharper, almost anxious.
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Lucas understood the shift before the words arrived.Pressure did not announce itself with threats. It arrived wrapped in concern, delivered by people who smiled too easily and spoke in language designed to sound reasonable while leaving no room to refuse.The first call came before noon.A board member he had known for years, someone who had once mentored him, opened with pleasantries that felt rehearsed.“You’re in a difficult position,” the man said gently. “We’re worried about you.”Lucas listened without responding.“There’s a perception forming,” the voice continued. “That you’re aligning too closely with a restructuring that h
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Opposition did not announce itself with confrontation.It organized.By midmorning, the Crosswell board calendar looked unchanged to anyone skimming it. Routine check ins. Committee updates. Compliance reviews. The familiar architecture of governance remained intact.But beneath it, a second structure was forming.Nathaniel saw it first in what did not reach him.Requests that once would have come directly now routed themselves sideways. Conversations happened in clusters rather than lines. Advisors began appearing in pairs, never alone, their language cautious but synchronized.Consensus building, one board member called it later.
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The question did not arrive loudly.It surfaced in fragments, in rooms where conversation slowed and people began to choose their words with unusual care. It appeared in board packets as annotations rather than proposals. It traveled through Crosswell and Whitmore alike, never written the same way twice, but always circling the same uncertainty.If no one is in control, who benefits.Nathaniel heard it first as a tone shift.Meetings ended without conclusions. Executives deferred decisions upward, then remembered there was no longer a single place to send them. Committees produced reports that outlined options without recommendations, as if afraid that preference itself might be mistaken for authority.Discomfort had matured into suspicion.
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