Once she was ready to go, Tsubaki had changed out of her new uniform and returned her supplies to their rightful places in her usual outfit. It was strange, going about the same routines knowing that there were extra sets of eyes watching the prisoners, possibly with the very same surveillance equipment Landel had shown them. How long had these military people been invested in the Institute before showing their faces, anyway? And how many others knew and were out there in the world?
With what little she herself knew, the possibilities were hard to grasp. One major looming continued to be how these strangers could find out about the personal histories of the people they spirited away, down to the most intimate details. How would those facts be used now, under new management? Tsubaki knew better than to think they wouldn’t be flaunted in similar ways.
And to know that, to know that private moments could be raised up and manipulated at any time…
Once she was ready to go, Tsubaki had changed out of her new uniform and returned her supplies to their rightful places in her usual outfit. It was strange, going about the same routines knowing that there were extra sets of eyes watching the prisoners, possibly with the very same surveillance equipment Landel had shown them. How long had these military people been invested in the Institute before showing their faces, anyway? And how many others knew and were out there in the world?
With what little she herself knew, the possibilities were hard to grasp. One major looming continued to be how these strangers could find out about the personal histories of the people they spirited away, down to the most intimate details. How would those facts be used now, under new management? Tsubaki knew better than to think they wouldn’t be flaunted in similar ways.
And to know that, to know that private moments could be raised up and manipulated at any time…
[continuing to here]
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