Blade had said it would be ideal to get selected as a Watcher, then I would have free rein to leave and enter the city. It would also then be easier to get messages to and from all the rogues as they didn’t have a Watcher turned rebel yet.

Blade also liked to hint at the incident where the masked Outsider had grabbed him into a chokehold just to give him a flash drive to hand over to Doxon—and once I was a Watcher, such embarrassing measures wouldn’t need to be taken anymore.

That then ...