The Raid That Made Him Famous

5. Cable business producer asks whether Ethan can appear as "the man who predicted the raid." 6. Personal note: fame is leverage only before it becomes evidence. Ethan read the list from the back of a black SUV Priya had sent, heading downtown toward a lawyer whose hourly rate would have made his old rent look sentimental. "You are quiet," Priya said beside him. "I was thinking." "About?" "A company." She turned from the window. He looked at the city ahead, glass towers catching the late sun like stacked chips. "Not a fund," Ethan said. "Not a newsletter. Not trades. A company that turns uncertainty into infrastructure." Priya studied him for a long moment. "That is either nonsense or a billion-dollar sentence." His inbox blinked.