CHRISTOF
All through the day, she moved through the office in confident strides. She delivered updates without hovering. Corrected a scheduling conflict before I noticed it, flagged an error in a report and fixed it before I could ask who’d approved the numbers.
I waited for a crack, it never came. At some point I realized I was creating excuses to interact with her, questions I already knew the answer to, requests that didn’t require urgency. Each time, she responded promptly, professionally, without the faintest hint of curiosity about why I was asking. I couldn’t tell if she was being intentional about it, but, she was icing me out.
If she’d been upset, I could’ve dismissed it. If she’d been hostile, I could’ve corrected it. But this version of Tanisha, calm, self-contained, faintl
