"We're going to need a reason to be beyond city limits. A reason to explore closer to the borders without anyone questioning why we're there. It also means, like Inej says, not talking to others about how we need to get others out of there," he says. "But we should become sympathetic to those who might be looking to escape this city as well. With what's happened tonight, who knows how long until they're not asking about joining the army but insisting."

And then he has to wonder what they'll do with those incapable of serving in the ways they need. At least on the surface, even if Kaz would push himself beyond his own limits.

"We also need to start working on supplies. For those we bring here and possibly for ourselves if we end up there with them as well."

They could be abandoning their life here already, for the sake of saving and protecting others trapped in worse ways than they were.