Joey raised his hand.
"I'll do it."
"Don't rush to be a hero just yet," Maya said. "This task is incredibly tedious."
"Making calls is incredibly tedious right now too." Joey rolled up his sleeves. "I'll take a different kind of tedious."
A small laugh finally broke out in the conference room.
The laughter was brief, but it eased the tension in the air by a fraction.
At ten-fifty, Daisy York arrived at Stellaris.
She had originally just come to drop off some documents Julian had left in her car. Seeing the room full of scattered papers and exhausted people, she stopped at the door.
"Did I just walk into a final exam cram session?"
Phoebe looked up.
"Scarier than exams. The worst that happens in an exam is you fail. We're getting our entire project bottlenecked."
Daisy walked in, saw the draft of the Child-Friendly Consent Guidelines on the table, and picked up a page.
She read a few lines, her brow slowly furrowing.
"Who is this for?"
Wren said, "For the children in the participating families. We're putting together Child-Friendly Consent Guidelines."
Daisy flipped to the next page.
"Well, this reads way too much like it's for the parents."
Maya looked up from behind her screen.
"I told you the text was too long."
Phoebe defended herself. "I've already cut it down three times."
Daisy sat down and picked up a pen.
"Kids don't care about 'data usage boundaries and post-withdrawal processing routes.' They just want to know if what they say will be repeated to other people by adults."
Wren looked at her.
Daisy crossed out the long-winded explanation and rewrote it:
What you say won't be shared with anyone else without your permission.
She crossed out another sentence.
Your visual data will only be used for this rehabilitation support and authorized structured assessments.
She changed it to:
We have to ask you before we record you. If you don't want to be recorded, just say so.
Phoebe leaned over to look.
"Isn't that too conversational?"



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