Letting her pull him further into the Oval Office, Theo went along with what she wanted. He was here to pay his respects to somebody who’d just lost a loved one. It was the least he could do, so he returned her hug for as long as she needed it. When she was finally ready, he pulled back before gesturing to one of the nearby chairs. “Let’s sit.” He waited for Savannah to take a seat first before he settled down himself. “Can you tell me what happened?”
His account of the incident was what Lansing had announced. No more, no less. Everybody seemed to agree with it over at the Capitol, but he wasn’t entirely ready to believe it. He didn’t want to influence the conversation too much, preferring to give Savannah the opportunity to talk about it without any interruptions. It most likely wasn’t going to be easy since it was still very recent, so he was prepared to wait if he had to. “How did Gray get in the middle of a crossfire between the patrolmen and the raiders?” It was a peculiar line of event. Vague, too.
There should have been no reason for the leader of the LBJ to be out on the streets, or at least anywhere near the Hellhounds. He wouldn’t have gotten himself in the middle of a fight between two opposing groups either, especially since he wasn’t connected to either side. LBJ had always been self-sufficient. Their only tie to the Capitol was a simple trade of water for resources. As far as he was concerned, Gray had nothing to do with the raiders in general. They weren’t exactly good people.