The letter went out at 11:47 a.m.
Anonymous advocacy group "Authors' Rights Now" funded through Chronos Canon Holdings, letterhead designed in-house sent the PDF to every member of Fistoria's board, plus cc'd to six major indie blogs, two EU regulatory bodies, and a handful of journalists who specialized in tech/publishing scandals.
Subject line: Urgent: Predatory IP Clause in Fistoria TOS Threatens Author Rights Globally
Body was short. Surgical. Viral-ready.
Within ninety minutes the first blog post appeared.
By 1:00 p.m. it was trending in indie writing circles.
Fistoria's stock ticker (publicly traded parent company) dipped 1.8%.
Not catastrophic.
But noticeable.
Joanna called at 1:22.
"They're panicking. Internal Slack leaks already show legal scrambling. Board chair requested an emergency meeting for 4 p.m."
"Good," I said. "Let them sweat."
I was in my office. Alone.
The betrayal arc chapter from yesterday was still climbing engagement.
