She put it out of her mind for now. “Let’s see how the world is taking our videos.”

She pulled out her phone and went online. Kovit scooched closer so he could see the screen, their arms touching and their heads tilted together to look at the news.

The video of Kovit being beaten had created a massive online controversy. Marches protesting the Dangerous Unnaturals List were being scheduled, and several branches of INHUP had been mobbed by angry people on both sides, pro- and anti-DUL.

INHUP posted their own video from Henry’s archive after they had, but instead of proving Kovit was a monster, it only authenticated Nita and Kovit’s video. At least three legal cases had been brought up.

An avalanche of other stories had started coming out. Anonymous vampires who said they’d never killed anyone, they lived off their significant others’ and friends’ donations, but feared for their lives. A story about a pair of grieving parents whose neighbor had broken in, murdered, and mutilated their five-year-old son because he was a zannie.

A research firm had done an analysis last year of the damage resulting from the DUL kill-on-sight policy and found that there were twice as many regular people killed by it as dangerous unnaturals. Through mistaken identity, casualties of mob violence, cases of people shooting at suspects and missing, hitting innocents. The mobs formed often committed other crimes after killing their target, and property damage was also high.

“It looks promising,” Nita said.

Kovit sighed. “Yeah, but will it actually do anything?”

Nita shrugged. “Time will tell.”

He reached over and clicked one of the links. “What’s that?”

The article popped up. It was titled Video of Man Beating Child Zannie Leads to Arrest of Multiple Members of Major East Coast Criminal Family.

“Holy shit.” Kovit leaned forward, eyes wide as he skimmed the article. “They arrested a bunch of members of the Family because they ID’ed Henry from the video.”

They scrolled through the article until they got to the bottom and stopped. The reporters had managed to get a sound bite from Gold when she was trying to post bail for the rest of the Family. It looked like she hadn’t been arrested with them. Yet.

“Miss Pullman! Miss Pullman!” called a reporter. “What do you say to the claims that your father was grooming you to take over his criminal organizations?”

“Alleged criminal organizations.” Gold’s tone was frosty, and it was clear that was the end of that topic.

“What do you think of the allegations of coercion and abuse he’s facing for forcing a zannie to torture people?” another reporter piped up.

Nita expected Gold to say what she always did: a zannie is a zannie, it likes torturing people, there’s no coercion involved, or something equally dismissive.