Kylie's POVI sat alone in the conference room hours after everyone else had departed, the brightness of my desk lamp my only friend. The stack of recently received intelligence reports lay before me, page by page of our enemy's control. I rubbed my temples, the fatigue of wear creeping over me. Even through fatigue, though, I knew something needed to be done.The past weeks had been a whirlwind of conspiracies, global plots, betrayals, and lawsuits. Today, sitting in front of me with the decrypted comms and the reports, the picture was clearer than ever before: our assailants were designing a multi-level attack, and our internal security had to be our initial line of defense.I coughed and began typing a message on my secure workstation, summoning my top internal security professionals for an evening-after-hours strategy session. Within minutes, the room was filled with a couple of familiar faces—Mark, our IT head; Sarah, security head; and Daniel, director of communications. Their w
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