(Network) awake from blood-thick dreams

[hooliganstatus]

I'm seeing a lot of people apologizing for what they did while we were in the city.

What if what you suddenly feel guilty about is older than that? If no one is here to apologize to?

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[in_extremis]

War limits your options. Is that what you meant, the starving?

I've known a lot of soldiers who came back and didn't know how to cope with what they had done. A lot of them still didn't feel like they had options, and turned all of that guilt outward until they finally got the help they needed when they were put in prison.

At least, I hope it helps. There's a lot of relapsing.

[hooliganstatus]

Something like that, yes. The metaphor got away from me a little.

What happens to them in prison? In Bregna, prisoners are tortured for information and then just left there until they die. Your prisons sound much more ... accomodating.

[in_extremis]

I can't say none of the prisons where I'm from are like that. I've experienced some myself.

But I was lucky enough to be in a position where I could provide the resources and a few good reasons why some of my nearest and dearest institutions should try to actually solve the problem. Figure out why they're there, what caused the issue, maybe stop it from happening to someone else.

I haven't met a lot of people that I thought were irredeemable or didn't deserve that chance. Most of them were starving.

[hooliganstatus]

Some of us were starving. Most of us were just tired of being controlled and lied to. The Chairman and his people revise history to read however they think would be 'best' for us.