Six AM.
Her alarm had not gone off yet when her phone rang.
She looked at the screen.
Manager Park.
She picked up before the second ring.
"Talk," he said.
She talked.
She had been awake for twenty minutes already, lying there going over everything in the order she would need to say it. So the words came out clean. No fumbling. No backtracking.
The production staff Gleam. The fan account they had been running quietly alongside their day job. The original B-roll file they had been sitting on since the game show. The first DM they sent her through Instagram. The second one last night with the NOXVEIL lawyer's very specific message about consequences if they shared the file with anyone connected to LUMEN.
She also told him that this person was scared. Not performing scared. Actually scared. And that they had reached out to her specifically because she was the only person close to LUMEN that a regular person could actually access.
Manager Park was quiet for a moment.
