Jono hadn't exactly gone all-out quite the same way Hannibal had, but Hannibal had asked him to supply fireworks, and so fireworks there would be.

... Most of them were actual fireworks, too. While Jono was perfectly capable of putting on an impressive light show without bringing explosives along, he wasn't in the mood to nap for half a week afterward. These were the real deal.

Boom.

//Upstart colonies.// Still, because this was Jono, and Jono was sometimes very pointedly British, he did feel obligated to mutter to himself the entire while. //I'm not even American, anyway.//