Would it surprise you if I said that this place is one of the more laidback "prisons" I've ever been to? Not counting the games where we're forced to kill each other, of course.
That depends on your definition. But before this, I was stuck in another dimension completely. And before that? I lived in a lab for twenty years.
[And before that, his old home, that old life, which she might have been able to feel the discontent from his memory alone. So what would that make it? Three prisons? Four, including this place?]
Yes. Papa wasn't a "therapist" like my mother thought, or anything so innocuous. He was a senior research scientist. The director of the facility I was kept in, all under the thumb of the US government.
I wasn't ever privy to the details. But there were tensions between nations at the time. Russia, I think.
[Sometimes you only vaguely know about the Cold War through years of barely-gleaned context, or through the very thrilling revelation that the Russians had an underground research facility in a... mall.
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[Half joke, half something for her to consider. But!]
So that's it, then? You're just waiting for the day for you to hold up your end of the "contract" and die?
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But it seems that doesn't apply to you.
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I got reminded that I wasn't alone.
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You know, I've noticed that's a theme.
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I guess not. Who would have thought that an interdimensional prison would have the company I'd need?
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[And before that, his old home, that old life, which she might have been able to feel the discontent from his memory alone. So what would that make it? Three prisons? Four, including this place?]
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[ yikes. ]
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That's right. My powers aren't exactly common in my world, and the government likes to take advantage of that. Or they did.
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[Sometimes you only vaguely know about the Cold War through years of barely-gleaned context, or through the very thrilling revelation that the Russians had an underground research facility in a... mall.
But that's a gruesome story for another time.]
So probably.
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