Ves took a few days off to get to terms with the latest setback. He felt devastated about the theft of his prototype.
The thought of those fanatics taking the prototype back to one of their hidden bases in order to repair and pervert the mech galled him to no end.
If the True Believers subsequently employed the prototype in one of their terrorist attacks, then everything that Leland described would definitely come to pass!
Ves would suffer the blame for arming the True Believers with such a prominent mech! The fact that he was the victim here and wasn't responsible for the misdeeds the extremists performed didn't matter! The traditionalists would rile up the Ylvainans until everyone wanted him gone!
