“We’ll make sure you vote, one way or another,” Jude agreed, tone much less inclined toward joking than either of theirs – and neither confirming nor denying the potential recourse to arson, if it came to it. And if Leeny couldn’t vote at the next election, they would make sure there were riots...
And the news was better than he might’ve hoped for, and he wasn’t planning on inciting a riot today, but it would have been nice to have some warning of it, just enough to start thinking through a response to have ready. A pamphlet, or a plan, their next play... and he wouldn’t have wanted to do anything to endanger Kieran’s job at the Prophet, obviously he wouldn’t. But – after losing the election, after being so close to it all, and caring about this outcome for so long – it felt a little like being left out in the cold, that Kieran hadn’t cared to tell him.
“I can keep a secret,” he said, to Kieran.
And the news was better than he might’ve hoped for, and he wasn’t planning on inciting a riot today, but it would have been nice to have some warning of it, just enough to start thinking through a response to have ready. A pamphlet, or a plan, their next play... and he wouldn’t have wanted to do anything to endanger Kieran’s job at the Prophet, obviously he wouldn’t. But – after losing the election, after being so close to it all, and caring about this outcome for so long – it felt a little like being left out in the cold, that Kieran hadn’t cared to tell him.
“I can keep a secret,” he said, to Kieran.
