Night 57: M21-M30 Hallway

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Speaking with Sam every night at dinner was almost always bound to be interesting, but this time really took the cake. Peter couldn't believe that his roommate had actually gotten to talk to one of Aguilar's highly ranked men. He wondered if that was going to become a trend or if it had been a one-time thing -- and even after hearing Sam's theories

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As L listened to Aguilar's address, his expression hardened: wary and skeptical at first, finally setting into a flinty resentment.

The fallacies in his presentation, the flaws, are obvious, he thought. We're the victims of his crimes--his and Landel's. Even our presence here is a serious violation of our human rights... they don't have the authority to detain us. We have no legal or moral responsibility to do as they say. It's ridiculous to insist that we should have to earn "privileges" according to their criteria. This line of thought wasn't new, but it was, he felt, the appropriate reaction to Aguilar's grandstanding. It was almost identical to Landel's, in effect, even if there were other differences between the goals of each

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L continued to mull over the situation as he prepared to go out for the night. He supposed that weighing Landel's cruelty against Aguilar's and coming up with an accurate equation would require knowing whether or not there was a way to return to where he'd been abducted from... whether or not the question was one of false, intermittent hope versus no hope at all. No. Anything that has an entrance has an exit, even if you have to destroy the mechanism that makes it appear to be a one-way door. If they want to control me, it's in their best interests to convince me that there's no hope, nothing to do but cooperate. I wouldn't believe it... I would keep looking for a way out. Likewise, even if he questioned Aguilar's reasons for opening the medical wing, and even if he doubted he would find anything of material importance there, he would still have to take a look.

The acquisition of Laurier's backpack--A backpack "belonging" to a fictional construct, L reminded himself--had made it easier to prepare to go out for the night. He still