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["Violence shows them how much we're willing to give up." said Griffin. "Violence is the only language they understand, because their system of extraction is inherently violent. Violence shocks the system. And the system cannot survive the shock. You have no idea what you're capapble of, truly. You can't imagine how the world might shift unless you pull the trigger."]

[Then he blinked, because he'd jus registered what this most mundane and extraordinary moment meant - that in the space of several weeks, they had become what he'd never found in Hampstead, what he thought he'd never have again after Canton: a circle of people he loved so fiercely his chest hurt when he thought about them.
A family.
He felt a crush of guilt then for loving them, and Oxford, as much as he did.]