James stepped out of the Hale Estate and onto the street to catch a taxi back to his house in Killiney.
As he walked toward the main road, people started recognizing him from the broadcast. A woman walking her dog stopped and stared. Teenagers across the street pulled out their phones to take photos.
An older man at a café squinted at him like he was confirming something he suspected.
The whispers followed him as he passed. "Is that him?" "That's the guy from the broadcast." "Team Zero, right?"
James kept his head down and walked faster. Yesterday he'd been anonymous. Today his face had been shown to billions while standing in front of an angel.
He flagged down a taxi and climbed in.
The driver glanced at him in the rearview mirror and his eyes widened slightly with recognition, but he just asked, "Where to?"
James gave his Killiney address and the driver pulled into traffic without comment.
