What he needed to do was help Joachim Young secure the position of County Mayor of Greshire County.
Doing this had two benefits.
First, by helping Joachim Young, he could establish a connection with Hadley Thorne.
He was well aware that because of the Houseman Family affair, both Joachim Young and Colter Hall had a natural hostility toward him.
But officialdom is brutally realistic.
If the benefits someone brings you outweigh the harm, even a blood feud can be shelved for the time being.
Dirk Carter, who had always refused to take sides, had no choice but to change tactics after arriving in Silverwood City; if he ended up being suppressed by both the top leader and the number two, his work would obviously go nowhere.
So he chose to temporarily cling to the big tree that was Hadley Thorne, to make him see his value; that way he could move between the first and second in command and survive in the cracks.
Secondly.
