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"I assure you, I'm here because I have the skills to guide the company through this difficult period."

It's an uninspired answer, but you deliver it well. The audience before you wonders whether there may be some hidden depths to you after all.

You take the next question.

"Robyn Goodchild," she says. She is thin, with sandy-colored hair, and freckles. "Where is Anaru Katariki?"

The woman is more casually dressed than most of the journalists in the room. She watches you patiently, with almost a challenging look about her, tapping the base of a pen against her chin. Robyn Goodchild. You'll have to remember that name.

It's a fine question. Anaru Katariki, your immediate predecessor as CEO of MetaHuman, disappeared several weeks ago. To your knowledge, nobody knows where he is.