Morning arrived beneath gray skies and restless rain, the kind that covered the city in cold silver reflections and made every towering building outside look distant and untouchable.
Cross Entertainment was already awake long before sunrise.
Assistants moved quickly across executive floors carrying documents and tablets while calls echoed softly behind office doors that had barely closed throughout the night. The atmosphere inside the company carried unusual tension this morning, subtle yet impossible to ignore, because everyone understood the same thing without needing to say it aloud.
Halcyon's teaser had changed the industry overnight.
And now everyone else was reacting.
Inside one of the largest executive conference halls on the upper floor, several board members and senior executives sat around a long black glass table while a massive digital screen displayed engagement statistics from the previous night.
The numbers continued climbing.
