Mango's message arrives without greeting. Just the one word, impatient as a tapped watch face: "Timeline?" You type and delete three answers before understanding the real problem: he does not want nuance, and the operation is nothing but nuance until the market moves, nuance in Isabella’s replies, nuance in PRAP’s thresholds, nuance in the way a firm can be both powerful and fragile depending on the hour. Your fingers hover. If you answer short, you sound evasive. If you answer long, you sound like you are negotiating with your own anxiety. If you answer honest, really honest, you sound like someone who should not be holding this phone. The screen glows on your face. Somewhere, charts are doing what charts do: pretending certainty. Somewhere else, Elizabeth is living a day that does not include any of this vocabulary. You realise Mango is not asking when you will be done. He is asking when you will stop needing thinking time and start producing outcomes he can sell upward. [[Quiet Evening Research|Start quiet evening research]] [[Cybercrime/The_Phisherman/Mango Wants Proof|Give Mango what he wants]]