Alex povToday is the general meeting for the company.I wake already exhausted.Not the kind of tired sleep fixes. The deeper kind. Bone level. My body aches with a dull heaviness that makes even turning in bed feel deliberate. Every movement costs something.This health condition is beginning to erode my quality of life.Not dramatically. Not loudly.Quietly. Systematically.I have no appetite. Food feels unnecessary, almost offensive. I force down nothing. Coffee will suffice. It always has. I am mid sentence when I notice the lights. They are too bright. Not flickering. Not malfunctioning. Just bright in a way that feels personal. Fluorescent, clinical, humming faintly above my head like they are aware of me. Like they are watching. “and if we align compliance with the revised Q3 projections, we avoid exposure in Zurich entirely,” I say, voice steady, measured. I hear myself. I sound like myself. Around the table, heads nod. Pens move. Screens glow. This is familiar territor
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