I am continuously confused by how much a totalitarian government seems to care about legal technicalities. And yes, I know that Micah is behind the release, but I’d still expect the others to be confused. Letting a known rebel go because of some minor technicality doesn’t seem very dictatorship-like.
I am equally confused by the way Danika talks about Philip Briggs here. Wasn’t she meant to be a rebel sympathizer? Then maybe we should see her, idk, sympathizing with the rebels at some point as foreshadowing for that plot twist later on.
