TANYA'S POVHe texted me on a Thursday morning, two days after the inquiry, while I was sitting in Halloran's office, going over the third-phase preparation timeline.Kenneth: I know what you heard there. I know you were at the inquiry. Can we talk? Please. Not to fix anything. I just need you to hear it from me.I read the message twice, then set my phone face down on the desk while Halloran kept talking about intermediate variable measurement protocols. It sat there for the rest of the meeting like a stone in my peripheral vision.I knew what I wanted to do, which was nothing. Do not call him back, do not reply, do not grant him the conversation he was asking for on his schedule, because the formal process had made his name uncomfortably public. I'd been here before, the gap between what I wanted to do and what I'd actually need to do to close a thing properly. Research has taught me that. You couldn't write a finding you hadn't finished collecting for. You couldn't call something r
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