be the biggest thing since nine eleven. There’ll be an investigation. Whistleblowers. This whole shit is gonna be exposed. It’ll make things better in the future, and mostly just some fuckin’ gang bangers and corrupt politicians gonna get capped.”

I really couldn’t argue with his logic, and I didn’t feel any personal stake in the wellbeing of all these people. Dying here in the midst of this chaos would be just as good a way to go as any other.

“You’ll be painted a terrorist,” I said.

“History will be the judge,” Mike said, hanging up his phone.

“I won’t stand in your way,” I said to no one in particular, hanging up my phone.

Turning back around, I watched as the woman on stage continued to deliver he...

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