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Nicholas Boothman
"Mr. Talbot, this is Dr. Anya Sharma. I'm the chief safety engineer at Cerulean. The one they're about to throw under the bus."
Henry stopped walking. "Dr. Sharma, I can't discuss it.”
"I know what you're planning," she interrupted. "I know because I've seen your work before. You're very good at what you do. But I need you to know something."
"What's that?"
"I sent them seventeen memos about that cooling system. Seventeen warnings that people would die if we didn't fix it. They ignored every single one because you people taught them that truth is negotiable."
Henry felt something cold settle in his chest. "Dr. Sharma...”
"I'm not calling to stop you. I know I can't. I'm calling because I want you to know that when you go home tonight and sleep in your expensive bed, forty-seven people are still dead. And your clever words won’t bring them back—they just make it easier for the people who killed them to keep their jobs."
She hung up.
Henry stood in the hallway, the phone still pressed to his ear, listening to dead air.
He went home. He poured a drink. He tried to sleep.
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