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"You'll just be a person who can sign on through CalNet Father's citizen's access doesn't get involved What I can't figure out is why they wanted Demosthenes before Locke"

"Talent rises to the top"

As a game, it was fun But Valentine didn't like some of the positions Peter an to develop as a fairly paranoid anti-Russian writer It bothered her because Peter was the one who kne to exploit fear in his writing--she had to keep co to him for ideas on how to do it Meanwhile, his Locke followed her ies Ither write Demosthenes, it meant he also had some empathy, just as Locke also could play on others' fears But the main effect was to keep her inextricably tied to Peter She couldn't go off and use Demosthenes for her own purposes She wouldn't kno to use him Still, it worked both ways He couldn't write Locke without her Or could he?

"I thought the idea was to unify the world If I write this like you say I should, Peter, I' for war to break up the Warsaw Pact"

"Not war, just open nets and prohibition of interception Free flow of inforue rules, for heaven's sake"

Withoutin De De of the League the Second Warsaw Pact was to be regarded as a single entity where those rules were concerned International free flow is still open But between the Warsaw Pact nations these things are internal eue"

"You're arguing Locke's part, Val Trust me You have to call for the Warsaw Pact to lose official status You have to get a lot of people really angry Then, later, when you begin to recognize the need for compromise--"

"Then they stop listening to ht a war"

"Val, trust "

"How do you know? You're not any smarter than me, and you've never done this before either"

"I'm thirteen and you're ten"

"Almost eleven"

"And I kno these things work"

"All right, I'll do it your way But I won't do any of these liberty or death things,"

"You will too"