I sent Marcus and Rosie to the monastery contact that Elena had provided. They fought me on it, but I was adamant. I could not have them put in danger because of my choices. Elena agreed to go with them, to guide them to safety. Before she left, she gave me her mother's journals, Catherine's research, and all the evidence the Liberationists had gathered about the network.
"Use this," she said. "Use this to make them understand that you are not just a power they need to control. You are a philosophy they need to reckon with."
Then I walked directly to the network's regional headquarters, an unmarked building in downtown Los Angeles that housed what looked like an ordinary insurance company office. When I entered, I did not encounter any resistance. They were expecting me. They had wanted
