For several minutes there is no response. The silence is not the silence of a busy person; it is the silence of a Director actively checking the corporate directory to verify your access level. You imagine Isabella searching the employee database, forwarding the note to a trusted colleague, asking one quiet question to the wrong person, choosing the version of prudence that protects the firm first and curiosity second. When the thread moves again, you understand that every further message is borrowed time. You read the new line twice, looking for warmth and finding only clinical corporate procedure. --- **The thread moves again. Time is borrowed.** → [[Cybercrime/The_Phisherman/External Research Pivot|Pivot: do a quick external research]] → [[Cybercrime/The_Phisherman/Ignore the Thread|Ignore the thread]]