Sign the Papers Mr. Langford novel Chapter 506

Phoebe stared toward the meeting room, her gaze turning entirely somber.

"They're trying to use his expert status to crush us."

Wren didn't respond to that.

The elevator doors parted, and several attendees stepped out. At the end of the hallway, the meeting room doors stood wide open, spilling harsh, cold light into the corridor.

She straightened the stack of files in her hands.

"Let's go in."

Half the seats in the room were already filled.

Director Charles Clarke sat to the left of the main seat. He had overseen the Stellaris review process previously, and Wren didn't have a bad impression of him. To the right sat two external experts, one of them a man in his fifties with silver-rimmed glasses and immaculately combed hair, a thick stack of printed materials resting in front of him.

He looked up, his gaze pausing on Wren for half a second.

Wren offered a polite nod to the room and took her seat.

At exactly ten o'clock, the meeting began.

The staff first read out the preliminary review results.

Stellaris's core eligibility for the pediatric rehab data support pilot is retained.

Existing partner families, upon re-signing authorizations, may continue receiving non-collection support services.

Resumption of new data collection requires a specialized pre-review.

The Stellaris team had practically memorized these points.

Just last night, Joey had stuck a gold star next to "core eligibility retained" on their whiteboard, joking that even though it was only medium-sized, they'd upgrade it to a giant one eventually.

That star was still stuck to the whiteboard.

Yet today, they were already sitting before a brand-new inquisition.

Wren pulled up her presentation.

The first slide had no graphics, only four core principles.

Explicit Authorization.

Data Traceability.

Child First.

Effective Revocation.

She stood by the projector, her voice steady.

"Stellaris's application to resume new collection does not involve a massive expansion. Phase one is strictly limited to a small-scale pilot for families who have completed a second round of communication and explicitly expressed willingness to participate. None of the newly collected data will connect to third-party algorithm providers. Raw audio, imagery, and text will never leave our local isolated environment."

She clicked to the second slide.

"If a child exhibits resistance, avoidance, obvious anxiety, or prolonged silence during a session, staff must halt collection immediately. Guardian consent cannot override the child's real-time psychological state."

Director Charles Clarke made a quick note.