[The question has her give a small shake of her head, along with a faint slump of her shoulders. She doesn't delay beyond that, keeping her hands busy in putting the lids back onto several boxes including a batch of candied apples and donuts with thematically decorated icing. Then it's stacking them up, and...]

It's the first time I've heard about either of them. I spent the last few weeks browsing the library and talking to native employees in Research for information, but there wasn't anything like this. We will probably have to wait after ADI: I'm guessing we'll either get an official statement soon, or they will keep silent until the next major directive is decided upon.

[And silence can be telling too, even if it's nothing good. It'd be like sweeping this under the rug, treating it as an incident everyone is expected to quickly get over from. Then again, American corporations dealing with apocalypses, of all things... Maybe they shouldn't jump to conclusions?]