Steinfeld said, "Sometimes your face looked familiar to me. But under all that grime ... and the way a man gets wasted ... " He shrugged. "So you wanted me to tell you something. There’s this: you were a great writer. A great speaker, great humanist. The torture didn’t break you—but then again it did. Even so, Smoke: you could help us. In the States the only ones who believe that the fascists are coming again are the ones trying to help them. As for the others—" He shook his head sadly. "Worldtalk pushes their buttons. But if people keep speaking up in the underGrid ... You could help us! People remember you."