On her first day as Director, Camellia stood behind the Phoenix podium.
A reporter asked, “Will you run Vault the way Sophie did?”
She paused, then answered:
“I’m not here to be Sophie Burnett.
I’m here because she made the fire safe enough for others to hold.
And now — I’m just holding it in my own way.”
Camellia introduced a new annual event: Legacy Day.
Not to remember Sophie.
Not to idolize Mary.
But to let everyone reflect on what truths shaped them.
On Legacy Day:
Schools hosted letter-writing sessions to their future selves
Parents shared their hardest personal truths with their children
Artists created sculptures out of burned...