The conversation happened two days later, in the main office, five of them gathered around the table with the door closed — Hunter, Ren, Sable, Dayo, and Yewande — deliberately excluding Marcus from a discussion Hunter had hoped to have carefully, thoughtfully, before anyone said anything he couldn't take back.
"Denise's honest testimony helps us against the lawsuit," Ren said. "But it also puts an unfiltered, real account of an uncontrolled capability event on the public record, permanently. A woman genuinely injured, no equipment monitoring available at the time, no way to have prevented it."
"That's not Marcus's fault," Dayo said immediately. "The equipment was cut off because of the freeze, not because he did anything wrong."
"I know that," Ren said. "But the public record won't nec
