Corin had been in the Republic's merchant quarter for four days under the name Aldren Sath, a mid-tier textile importer with an established business record and a Republic commercial license that had been active for six years.
The license was real. The business had conducted real transactions.
He was not a fanatic. He wanted this on the record, internally, in whatever part of him kept records: he was not one of the people burning things. The burning made him professionally angry in the specific way that sloppiness made professionals angry. It wasn't moral outrage per Dr, just the clean frustration of watching someone create evidence with every step when the entire point of the operation was to create none.
