CHAPTER 95 — WHEN SILENCE BECOMES A WEAPON
The city answered Elena's defiance with silence.
Not the peaceful kind.
The dangerous kind.
By morning, the noise had vanished completely. No fresh headlines crowded the financial pages. No emergency press conferences filled the airwaves. No analysts argued on television about culpability or fallout. Markets opened smoothly, indexes fluctuating within normal margins as if the previous days had never happened. The world moved forward with deliberate indifference.
To anyone watching casually, it would have looked like the storm had passed.
Elena knew better.
Silence, when carefully constructed, was never neutral. It was containment. It was strategy. It was the pause predators took before deciding where to strike.
