[ He couldn't help it, the split of a grin that took his face. He was confident, maybe too confident about this. He crossed his arms as he did so, holding the glass at the juncture of an elbow. ]
Because I'm a bestseller, that's why.
[ It was true. That's why the government thought he was dangerous, after all. They couldn't have someone sowing the seeds of dissent often, and not well. The problem was that Mitchell was painfully easy to hide, and not enough people knew his new face. He'd been careful, he'd constructed everything about the new identity down to the birth records.
So people listened, and the debate was heating up again, thankfully. }
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Because I'm a bestseller, that's why.
[ It was true. That's why the government thought he was dangerous, after all. They couldn't have someone sowing the seeds of dissent often, and not well. The problem was that Mitchell was painfully easy to hide, and not enough people knew his new face. He'd been careful, he'd constructed everything about the new identity down to the birth records.
So people listened, and the debate was heating up again, thankfully. }