"S'where it all went down, yeah," Sparkle agreed, fidgeting for a moment. "Playing 'illegal alien' in America for a few years and even running a business here, like... I can't let that be something they find out. I can't lose everything I built here."

A pause.

"And I can't run again. And they'll be afraid I will. And it might come to locking me up because I fucked up bad on bail but if I can swing house arrest, I'm gonna. The lawyer agrees that after Lew outed me in public I have a really good case for avoiding going behind bars at least until my own verdict."

Which was good. Because 'behind bars' would lead to Sparkle just sitting himself in a corner and starting to scream until he passed out.