I thought about some of that. It's only a scandal if we're trying to cover it up, right? If it comes to light, we admit openly that your skills are too valuable not to pass on, but we didn't want to cause any trouble for the trainees, so we had you assist mentoring in a different capacity.

[Zeke feels pretty confident that the most boring possible thing is admitting to exactly what you're doing. Acting like you have something to hide? That's bad. Defending and deflecting? Blood in the water. But fail to actually offer any juicy red meat for the press to get into is the surest way to get them distracted with some other scenario they can milk.]

Could even formally recommend it under the Division's whole "Necessities" purview, especially the mental health part.

[In some ways... Zeke and Ai are very different people. What with him proposing "not lying" and all.]