"You didn't answer my question," Tom said. "Why the ten of us? Why me? Why Maxxie? Why JT and everyone else? We're far from the only aces, jokers, and nats in the city, so there must have been some reason, something that made us stand out to you, made us think that we would want to help you. How did you find us, choose, us, out of hundreds of thousands, millions of people?"