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Chapter 122 – After the Silence Breaks

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The building felt quieter than it had in years.

Not empty. Not abandoned. Just stripped of the low hum that came from pretending everything was fine. Evelyn noticed it as she walked through Drake Tower that morning. Conversations were softer. Eye contact lasted longer. People no longer hurried past one another with practiced indifference.

Silence had broken, and what followed was not chaos.

It was uncertainty.

In the war room, the chairs filled slowly. No one rushed to speak. Noah sat with his hands folded, Hana scrolling through messages she did not immediately summarize. Even Celeste seemed to pause before taking her seat, as though weighing what authority meant now that it could no longer hide behind tradition.

“We are entering the after,” Noah said at last. “The point where the story has been told but not yet understood.”

Evelyn nodded. “That is always the hardest part.”

Hana looked up. “People are asking what they are allowed to say. Not to the press. To each other.”

“That questi
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