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[hostage]

UNIT№409



_“ Hey, it's me. Wait for the thing. _”

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[ensorceler]

[ There's a delay in this response. Debating with herself. ]

What think you to be the kindest way of phrasing my Speech? I am, after all, new to the ways of the Initiative and police.

[hostage]

You're good at this stuff, I'm no expert either, but I think it's pretty clear I'm cooperating, I haven't been violent, and no one is pressing charges against me so they have no legal right to keep holding me

[ensorceler]

Then may I first ask why the lawyer practices no law? Or do they not listen to him? Are they themselves as rebel as those others they hold captive?

[hostage]

Either he's not trying or they won't listen, either way he's useless to me now

[ensorceler]

[ Then she needs to have words with Saul, even if they aren't hypnotizing words. Later. ]

This will not do. You must be well and present for Christmas, and for planning Christmas. Tomorrow is the first of the month and there may as well be none to arrive for the loss of your warm welcome that so many do not deserve.

I am certain that Mistress Small can understand this if it is properly explained to her. Allow me to know when she is present, and I shall come to see her.

[hostage]

She's always here just ask to speak with her in her office or something but you want to make sure nobody else hears you vouching for me or they'll get mad at you for sticking up for me

[ensorceler]

I can Speak with them all.

[hostage]

The fewer the better

I don't want you at risk

[ensorceler]

But you cannot be released into a peoples that reject you. This is not efficient; not well managed.

I am apt at managing.

[hostage]

I just want Ros to understand that I'm sorry for what I did and I won't do it again, that no one's in danger

I can handle whatever comes next

[ensorceler]

You are sorry?

This is not the way, for them to think you have been condemned without trial and somehow made better. I heard of no sentence passed! You have been treated no better than a dog, and they must be held accountable.

[hostage]

It IS the way

Please trust me

Just talk to Ros and explain like I told you

I'm doing everything I can to please them and they don't need to be scared

That's all

[ensorceler]

[ More delay. ]

If you promise to then talk to me.

[hostage]

Of course I will

[ensorceler]

Then I will be swift. Please ponder on to better things for a time.

later; after getting b&

[ensorceler]

It was for naught, and I fear I have only hurt you more. Her ears were closed to my Words.

I am banished like a traitor.

[ And NOW SHE'S SCARED FOR HERSELF because clearly they lock up people they see as a threat. P.S. she's crying; he doesn't need to know that. ]

[hostage]

What happened?

[ensorceler]

Mistress Small, though dignified in her speech, is misguided in her beliefs and actions and none can return her to the righteous path. In such misdirection she escorted me away.

Now you shall never talk to me.

[hostage]

No

It's OK

What's happening? Did they arrest you?

[ensorceler]

Had I further resisted, I fear that I was only moments away from the gallows.

[hostage]

But you're OK now right?

[ensorceler]

None laid their hands upon me.

[hostage]

I'm so sorry

I'm such an idiot

[ensorceler]

[ Y e s. ]

It is they who are making false judgments and accusations, and acting upon prejudice rather than truth and goodness and sense.

I will be silent no longer.

[hostage]

Don't

It's enough just stay safe now