"Then don't vote for Wayne. He'll make the group regardless, he's got the funds for it," Erik says. "Apparently it was a thing he did back home, so I'm not too surprised. It was a program, and again, in a completely different political landscape."

That's why this is hard, no one's perspective is the same and everyone's on a different paying field. Even Erik's world is just... starkly different, and everyone sort of operates as if they're remotely comparable. It's why it's hard to run-- everyone's giving him half pictures of what they want and no one knows what they need. Anyway.

"What do you think we should do for protection, then?"