By afternoon, the Mayor faced a press conference he couldn’t control. Jax’s partner outlet released contracts linking the Mayor’s office to a syndicate shell—payments disguised as “resilience consulting,” with bonus clauses tied to “successful displacement outcomes.”
Reporters asked questions that cut clean through prepared statements. “Which neighborhoods were designated for ‘managed overflow’?” “Who signed off on trials without informed consent?” “Why were proprietary activation logs withheld from independent review?”
Rhea stepped to a separate microphone with a written statement and unflinching eyes. “I consented under pressure,” she said. “I regret that. Here is what I know and what I can prove.” She laid out the timeline, the budgetary coercion, the NDAs.
Amara submitted a formal affidavit with data attachments, each exhibit stamped and mirrored, beyond the reach of local sabotage. Kelechi, jaw set, delivered a statement of his own: naming the subcontractors, the vans, the handoffs at the edge of flooded streets.
The conference devolved into a reckoning. Investigators moved like weather through the municipal building.

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