“I decided” sets a decisive mood from the start. The sentence “That I had to face justice—that my freedom wasn't worth anything if I was a wanted man, or if the city was still under the DHS.”, used subordinate conjunctions, that and if, to combine short phrases and provide examples to support the tone of determination. “I had to face justice” is an independent clause making a forceful determined statement. He reveals he is less important than free friends, city, and country. He is determined to put freedom above
