"Evening the field then." Good and bad news there. She couldn't fathom the ability to strip people of power without being aware of it while happening. It begged so many questions, the least being what else could they do, if they could rip what made people special straight from their veins.

"Small favors for some."

She could concede that it would be a problem for many others. "I wonder how it fell so far."

Because even at war America had been a land of determination and hope. It was kind of ridiculous, actually, how very intense the American people could be. Something massive must have happened. Something no one had seen before to bring things so low as this.