He wouldn't exactly be able to say why, but the interrogator pauses for a moment, to general murmurs of confused 'no's around him and the dissident.<br/><br/>What an odd question. Very much against his better judgement, he answers. "I am serving the State." It probably should have sounded like a firm declaration. Purposeful. The State was all that was- that he should be serving.<br/><br/>But it came out ... weak. Shaky. As if the question's oddness had gotten to him.