James knocked on Catherine's door late on a Thursday afternoon.
She looked up from a stack of budget reports, reading glasses perched on her nose. She had recently moved to operations after spending two decades Catherine had developed an ability to read people as quickly as she read spreadsheets. She studied James for a moment, then gestured to the chair across from her desk for him to sit.
"This isn't about the authentication project," she said. It wasn't a question.
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