The words hung in the air like a physical weight that had suddenly settled on the entire conference room. More than double the size of New York City. I felt my brain trying to process the sheer scale of what they were asking, while simultaneously realizing that my confidence from the previous day's park restoration had been based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the scope involved.
I turned to look at President Santos, giving her what I hoped was a clear expression of "are you kidding me?" The look I was aiming for was somewhere between incredulous disbelief and the kind of betrayed confusion that came from realizing you had been severely undersold on the magnitude of a project.
