Typical politician. Never use ten words when a thousand will do. - Dennis E. Taylor

I was blank for a moment, then I laughed. “So you’re monitoring the monitors.

We — by which I mean the people working on the project, including myself — are not scared of you, Bob. We’re scared of the tactical nuke buried in the basement.” If I’d still had eyebrows, they would have shot right off my head. “Habba-whaaa?

Gina, rolled her eyes. “Marcus, you’re a loner. You always have been, the way you describe it. And you’ve never sought power. But some people need power, and they need to have power over someone. Preferably lots of someones. Taking away the Council’s subjects — which is what you’d be doing — is a declaration of war.