The Davao Mayor after paying her fellowship dues to allies and signing up with Lakas-CMD, has returned to Davao to attend to the flooding there. The fog of war is especially thick as tensions and expectations are reaching fever-pitch, with the deadline for candidacy substitutions on Monday, November 15. My impression is that if there remain ongoing negotiations, they are deadlocked. This can be gleaned from interviews of Ferdinand Jr.'s cousin, Martin Romauldez, however much members of the President's inner circle who are in the Marcos camp, claim otherwise. From left field, because originating in what seems to be the least-plugged-in of the ruling coalition partners (the ruling party itself, PDP-Laban, which has been the target of Sarah Duterte's moves often enough), came a "term-sharing" scheme which Marcos Jr. shot down.There remains speculation about what Senator Pacquiao might announce, and whether the weekend will remain a time for waiting to see what happens on Monday.