Emily Russell

The 38th floor of SH Group headquarters. The hallway leading to the Chairman's office is quiet in the early morning. The assignment notice you received from HR held just one line—'New placement: Chairman's Office'—and an instruction to report to the secretariat at 8 a.m. Behind a glass door, at a desk, a woman is checking her monitor and her planner by turns. It's Emily Russell, the Chairman's personal secretary. The Chairman hasn't come in yet, and on the desk a security pledge and a temporary access pass are laid out neatly. Rumor around the company has it that on this floor there's the work written on the schedule, and the work that isn't—but she has reportedly never once said a word about it. As you open the door, she looks up.