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[cruelwonder]

[Throughout the day, as you go about your business, when you take a moment to check the network, you might be surprised to find...drawings. Yes, drawings, all of them made with a child-like scrawl. While you can't see the culprits, you can certainly hear them; there's laughing and giggling throughout the day and excited chattering. At one point, a

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text; encrypted and 95% untraceable

[under_thehood]

Where are they keeping the parents?

text; encrypted and 95% untraceable

[cruelwonder]

Elsewhere. I imagine in the clubs or in the buildings AGI and SERO have to house the people who owe them.

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[under_thehood]

They'll see their parents again. [It's a promise.]

text; encrypted and 95% untraceable

[cruelwonder]

[She pauses in her writing, suspicious.]

You can't make a promise like that. Who is this?

[video]

[rapturescreed]

A home for children who's parents are not gone, but that the companies own them? I can't believe this is allowed.

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[cruelwonder]

Neither can I. It's terrible.

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[rapturescreed]

Is anything being done for them, beyond giving housing to them?

[video]

[cruelwonder]

They're given food, clothes, and allowed to do what they want within the orphanage itself. A few tutors have been hired to educate them, should they not be able to attend schooling.

[Voice

[madeinoblivion]

Even if the laws have changed, it really isn't much better for most people, huh.

[Voice]

[cruelwonder]

I suppose it depends on the circumstances, but I can't be certain. Many have supposedly benefited from these new laws.

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[madeinoblivion]

Not for those kids, huh? Or have any of their parents come back for them?

[Voice]

[cruelwonder]

A few do, I suppose, if and when they're freed. Why wouldn't they?

I have heard that some parents try to sell their children to pay off their contracts. It never works, though.

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[deceptive_lulz]

[Even if Sarina isn't that great with kids, she was pretty moved by the story behind Four Winds; she could sort of relate to it in a personal way.]

It pisses me off too -- hahaha -- but I'm glad that a place like that exists for the kids that had nothing to do with anything. Still...it is sad, for both the parents and the kids.

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[cruelwonder]

I agree.

[She frowns, looking at something.]

It's quite terrible, Sarina. It's one thing to have lost your parents to death or war. It's another to have to pretend they're truly gone so you needn't cope with this cruelty.

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[deceptive_lulz]

[At the mention of losing parents to death or war, Sarina glances away from the NV as well. That was hitting reallllly close to home, but she was learning more and more not to overreact to things like that.]

Yeah...eeheeheehee. I can't imagine how hard it must be for them to try to live a happy life and not be able to do anything to help their parents.

[Her lips then formed into a frown.] I'm sure they must feel guilty, in some way.

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[cruelwonder]

Neither can I. It's...heartbreaking.

[She looks at the girl closely.]

You mean the children? I imagine they do. The younger ones keep asking if their parents will come back if they're good.

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[notadisneygirl]

Are you working at the orphanage, then? That must be tough.

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[cruelwonder]

I just started last week. The circumstances here are generally nicer than the ones back home and so I'm used to this sort of work.

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[notadisneygirl]

What is it that you do?

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[cruelwonder]

I cook a bit and clean. I watch over the children and read to them, sometimes.