That is what we’ve been prepping them for. We are murderers. We are meant for murder. The last few weeks have been a scramble to protect our people, but at the core of that protection is a promise to rise to violence. This is the step some civilians don’t understand, the step Cara rejects: We can only make good on our promise of protection if there’s blood on our hands. We can’t bluff. The city only speaks the language of power, and we have to speak it right back for them to listen.
