"Hey, I'm not saying it was a good idea, I'm just saying I see what led up to it. Don't think I'm that naive, Maw." He stretches his arm out over the tables and cracks his neck, still sore from the mission. "Sounds like reality TV only a million times worse. And everywhere. Can't forget the everywhere."

He raises his eyebrows and shakes his head at Anwei. "That's what it was, selling. But alright, if you're that worried about it, I'll call it something else. Just because you whip yourself over it in the Sensoriums doesn't mean it was any less stupid."

Let go of something? Howard? Never!