"There's more, and you need to hear all of it before you answer." O'Shea set his hands on his knees. "The Bureau is recommending supervised release. Not freedom. Release."
James waited.
"You're still under legal review. Langford is dead by your hand on a public feed. People died at the Ashford Grand. You raised human corpses on Earth, and that alone is its own line of inquiry." He didn't soften any of it. "But this morning's work proves something else along with it. You were the target of a foreign-backed operation to take you out of this country. That changes what you are on paper. You're not only a suspect now. You're a protected witness, and a national Tower asset, and those two things buy you out of this room."
He listed the terms plainly.
