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  • After Beanpole recovers Will from the latter's successful escape from the Masters' City, Beanpole notes that he saw two other bodies floating in the river though Will assures that neither of them is Fritz who chose to stay behind as The Mole. Those two bodies are of the Black Guard slave masters who were killed by Will and Fritz. However, this does not account for Borman, the guard captain who was killed from behind by Will but did not get a Railing Kill like the other two guards who visiby fell into the water. Fritz pointed out that he had a good thing going in his current position "provided that I'm not associated with the disappearance of these three". So even if we didn't see it, he surely immediately dumped Borman's body in the water so there should have been three bodies that Beanpole saw floating from the City.
  • How did Fritz figure that he had a secure position as long as nobody associated him with the disappearance of Borman and two of the other guardsmen? Their final chase started when Borman spotted both Will and Fritz while interviewing another member of the Power Elite. Fritz may not have been able to hear everything they were saying but he should have guessed that he was the subject of the conversation as Will was thought dead at this point. The problem is, that this man also now knows that Will is not dead and that Fritz was clearly spotted with him. So Fritz, in staying behind, might not get off Scott-free, given that this other man can share what he witnessed with the Masters.

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