The disagreement didn't stay contained to that one conversation. By the following week, it had started showing in smaller ways — Ren and Hunter directing questions through Sable instead of to each other during planning calls, both of them present in meetings but rarely addressing one another directly, a coolness that the rest of the network noticed even though nobody said anything about it out loud at first.
It was Yewande who finally addressed it, calling both of them into a small conference room on a Tuesday afternoon, closing the door behind her with a firmness that made clear she wasn't asking permission.
"This needs to stop," she said, before either of them could sit down. "Not the disagreement. I understand disagreements. What needs to stop is whatever this is where the two of you
