Poisoning the Well

Kaelen

The article was in my breakfast briefing at six thirty AM.

Barrett had flagged it overnight with a single line of annotation: Planted. See page four.

I read it with my coffee going cold beside me.

The publication was respectable, not tabloid, not fringe. The kind of business journal that sat on boardroom tables and got cited in earnings calls. The profile on Damian Cross was four pages,