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[whattheytellyou]

[Friends Filter - If you think you’re on it, you probably are. Morrigan, Loki, O’Brien, Mark Hoffman, and Eddie Spinola have been added. Per his request, Armand St. Just has been removed.**]

I apologize if I’ve been quiet lately. I had my hands full, what with keeping my inmate from consummating her, ah, marriage during this last flood.

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[Private]

[most_feared]

Flatly, what excuses them I'm pretty sure is that a warden is asked here not because they don't take life, but whetever they do they still have a legitimate interest in preserving it.

You can't be emotionally detached here. I wish to hell you could. But the way the system's set up, it's too much of a power trip to not care about your inmate.

[Private]

[whattheytellyou]

What about the wardens who don't seem to express that interest in preserving life? The ones that have double standards for certain people?

[Private]

[most_feared]

Mm. Didn't say everybody. Just life. It's a thin line. But they still have an idea of the greater good. Even if it's just barely, sometimes.

Someone convinced them that the greater good means they gotta teach people that no one's gonna ever fuckin' be there to catch them when they fall. That's what this is about, you know. Not, "learning to appreciate life". Anyone that shows mercy or takes a hit for one of these traps? They're going to die. They depend on people realizing they're all alone in the world. Just like them. And as much as they have themselves convinced, that doesn't help anybody.

[Private]

[whattheytellyou]

I wonder if you're not right about that. Hoffman keeps asking me if I care. Not why, but if.

Amanda...well, whenever I try to help - to even suggest I'm trying to help - she gets violently angry.

They have their survival instincts tuned to maximum. Maybe you're right about them thinking they're all alone.

[Private]

[most_feared]

That's what I've gotten out of it, anyway.

Look uh... keep an eye on your weapons. I think Cooper's cooking up ideas on how to get back to his family and none of them are good.

[Private]

[whattheytellyou]

Thanks for the heads-up.

You have a weapons' locker, right? I've got to put my Lindstradt in a secure place. Parker loaned me something more compact.

[Private]

[most_feared]

It's fine if you want to use it. Compact does a lot of good on this ship.

Thinking of offering to convert the first two bullets in any projectile guns I've got to blanks. That way if anyone takes the gun the first two shots they get off aren't going to do shit.

[Private]

[whattheytellyou]

Not a bad idea.

I'd really appreciate it if you'd lock it away for me, if it's not an inconvenience. I don't want...

The projectiles are canisters containing neurotoxins, you see.

[Private]

[most_feared]

[Woo. That's some stuff with a kick to it.]

I have space and the safe is hermetically sealed and has sensors. Should be fine in there.

[Private]

[whattheytellyou]

I'd appreciate it.