"Now?" I asked. "I just got into bed."
"The sooner the better," Aya replied.
Breathing deeply, I sat up on the edge of the bed. The dim blue moonlight hit my feet through the window.
"What should we do?" I wondered.
"Well, I've had similar experiences in my previous jobs but not about individual people, obviously. They were controversies about the entire company."
"And how did you handle them?"
"Pretty well, if I may say. If there was a chance, I gathered as much information as possible before the situation became public to build a public statement with that. If not, I'd take longer to do it. Late, but better than nothing."
"Then why d
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