Indeed, people come and go fairly regularly. Still, the Chosen population tends to grow rather than contract since I arrived here. Attachments always come with risks.
[On that front, he and Miller were the same. He limited the attachments that he formed since he was a young man, and he had no reason to start changing that tactic even being in a new place. After all, everyone wanted something from someone else, and it was a matter of deciding if the price was worth the product that was received.]
I am coming to believe it might be a reward for integrating into their prison system. If you have something from home, perhaps you'll be better behaved in the long run. If you have something you value, maybe you won't break everything. [People with something to lose would find ways to keep it after all, or if they couldn't have it, they'd burn everything around them.] It's a bar where I'm from. It's been in my city since before I was a boy.
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Date: 2024-05-18 12:18 am (UTC)[On that front, he and Miller were the same. He limited the attachments that he formed since he was a young man, and he had no reason to start changing that tactic even being in a new place. After all, everyone wanted something from someone else, and it was a matter of deciding if the price was worth the product that was received.]
I am coming to believe it might be a reward for integrating into their prison system. If you have something from home, perhaps you'll be better behaved in the long run. If you have something you value, maybe you won't break everything. [People with something to lose would find ways to keep it after all, or if they couldn't have it, they'd burn everything around them.] It's a bar where I'm from. It's been in my city since before I was a boy.