"Well, that's probably good." Sif managed a smile through tears. "Just ... some of these boys are that type. And they're grown men, but they're ... I'm just so afraid they'll get hurt or wind up serving time or something. One of them already did six months in county, and I'm just like ... it's not worth your freedom or your health. Not when the change you want won't happen that way. Change happens slowly, within the system, unless you're happy to kill ten million people or institute a gulag."
She belatedly realized how informally she'd been talking, and looked scared. "I'm sorry, Mayor, I'm ... babbling. I don't - " She just didn't have anyone to talk to and he'd looked so safe ...