After three days of press madness, canceled meetings, and murmurs spilling across every hall of the foundation, the board finally made a decision: a full day off. The idea was to pause everything. Let the noise settle. They'll be no shoots, no planning, no PR rounds of any sort. One still day before the official ten-day campaign run began tomorrow.

The message came in the night before, and she had barely acknowledged it when it arrived, simply placing his phone down and turning off the light, ...