The silence in the backstage hallway was strange.
They were all confused.
A staff member stared at the script evaluation board, then stared back at Zeno's retreating figure.
"Did none of us tick anything off?" they whispered, looking around for someone to explain.
"Not even one wrong verb?" another muttered, rifling through their clipboard with panic.
"Not a single preposition?" someone else asked, horrified.
Gene PD sat frozen, jaw tight as he stared at the untouched error chart.
"Did… someone leak it?" Gene asked no one in particular.
"I made sure no one else had it," he whispered to himself. Not even the judges, except for Bacon PD, knew of the concept of the show right before this day. He wanted to keep it down as much as possible to increase the suspense.
"Then how?" Gene muttered, watching Zeno with suspicious eyes as he settled back in his seat.
In the viewing room, Hero was just beginning to regret every decision he'd ever made in life.
