Chapter 98 — Alex as Alysha
Reactions to the opening day ceremony remained divided.
Some viewers were genuinely curious to see what Alex could do. Others still questioned how a model who had arrived in Florelia only months earlier had gained access to Royalstar, to Owen, and to one of the most anticipated productions of the year. Every answer at the press conference seemed to generate a new suspicion in the space where the previous one had been.
Royalstar issued nothing further.
Alex did the same. Her days began before sunrise and ended long after the studio lights went down. She studied her lines during makeup, worked through her blocking between takes, and watched the playback whenever Owen would allow it. The comments online had stopped being her greatest fear. What she feared now was giving anyone on the crew a reason to say she had wasted their time.
