Bruce sat back, letting the information sink in. It hit him harder than the punch Mike had landed on Dax. He shook his head slowly, not because he didn't believe it, but because the sheer impossibility of the man's duality was staggering. He was a scholar with the hands of a titan.
"District 4 is going to be very strange with you in it," Bruce said, his voice a low rumble of realization.
"District 4 has been strange since the day it was built," Mike countered, a small, knowing smirk playing on his lips. "I'm just the new variable."
Bruce exhaled a long, slow breath through his nose. It was the sound of a man who had finished a complex calculation and arrived at a result that was both unexpected and entirely logical.
He knew the world was about to change.
"Alright," Bruce said. The word was short, sharp, and final.
