In the LUMEN dorm nobody talked about the article directly.
They did not need to, and nobody wanted to be the one who brought it up first.
Doyun went to the practice room and ran extra laps for an hour with no music on. Just his feet and his breathing and whatever he was burning through. When he stopped he looked at himself in the mirror for a long moment.
Then he went to get water and said nothing about any of it.
Taekyung had read the article at nine AM, identified three valid points and two unsupported assumptions, made a private note he would never look at again, and was back in his production files by nine-fifteen.
Jisoo read it at lunch.
Finished it.
Put his phone face down on the floor.
Did not touch it for two hours.
When he picked it back up he went straight to his notes app, wrote one line, and put his phone in his pocket.
Nobody saw what he wrote.
Haejin read it three times and kept going back to the last paragraph.
