So being a separatist insurgent couldn’t have been further from Laks’s mind. But Ranjit was within his rights to be worried about it. For all he knew Laks might be one such. Maybe a forerunner of some new wackazoid splinter group that no one here had ever heard of. Or, perhaps worse, and more plausibly, some kind of undercover agent trolling through the community trying to gull people into admitting that they would support such activities. So Laks had to explain himself in a hurry. And it caused him to blurt something out that he’d barely realized was on his mind until now: "In all honesty, Ranjit, my future is most likely to join the military, and there to use my abilities in service of my nation." Then, for the avoidance of doubt, he specified, "Canada."