[ Maybe that's why. But maybe she should have asked still. ] You're not wrong.

[ Very few of them as invasively as her, but all of them have been on the carpet for it. It's also been the reason any number of them have stayed alive in the diciest of spots because someone was tracking them down for the umteenth hundred reason in this life. ]

Though it's not like it isn't happening inside this bubble, too.
We've simply lost the screens and voting audience.

[ She considers her coffee again. The invasiveness of the system that still remains uncracked. The one that brought them all here. Keeps them all here.



Sent Dick—the literal best of them—away. ]