The decision to go public lasted exactly twelve hours before the choice was taken away from them entirely.
Seraphina was reviewing draft statements with her legal team, trying to find language that would reveal supernatural existence without triggering mass panic, when Sarah's voice crackled through the secure communications system with news that changed everything.
"Ma'am, you need to see this. All channels. Now."
The wall displays flickered to life, showing simultaneous broadcasts across major networks in six different countries. But these weren't the carefully managed news stories they'd been expecting. These were raw, unedited footage that looked like it had been captured by security cameras and cell phones.
