You'd be surprised, Los Angeles. [She's known them a lot longer than he has; sometimes all the rationality in the world won't undo a bout of stupidity and a need to flex it. Doubly so if they're restless— and he's still, for all her work to keep him firmly established, not born here, not raised here— no matter who he breaks or how he breaks them, there will always be a divide.

But that's the thing about cheating: you get to break the rules. ]

I'll set up a couple more raids. LumériCo needs the distraction anyway. It'll keep them from focusing on this. [She taps a nail against one of the broken drives.]

And if I can sell some of this information for a good price, take a cut of the funds and buy them a few rounds at Carlita's— on you.

[In short: be a leader, Gabe, not a leashed hound.]