SCENE 12
The Battle for Status
It’s 4:00 p.m. The conference call ended over an hour ago, the team in disarray. Emily tries to work on something else, but her mind swarms with unanswered questions from the meeting. She wants to make it all fit together, but all she sees are impasses. She deletes and files emails for a few minutes before her director kicks in, recognizing she is avoiding a call that needs to be made.
As she dials Colin, a quiet internal voice tells her to prepare mentally first, but anger drowns out this alert. She’s still mad as hell at Colin for upsetting Leesa.
“I thought that would be you,” Colin says.
Emily feels it’s wrong to tackle the situation bluntly, but this feeling is overridden by a stronger emotion, that what ...
