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[oohforeshadowing]

Let me get back to you, darling.

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[oohforeshadowing]

I had what sounded very much like the choice between surviving and...not. If we're calling that 'opting in'.

[hauntedcalamari]

Oh, I get that. Not actually a real choice. I just know there are inmates who show up with no idea what's going on.

[oohforeshadowing]

That was all a long time ago anyway, so I'm wondering why you asked?

[hauntedcalamari]

Because I think it matters, straight up kidnapping versus the illusion of choice, and if people are floundering under either of those conditions it might feel like a factor.

[oohforeshadowing]

How do you think my position would be different if I hadn't chosen this?

[hauntedcalamari]

Day to day, maybe not much, but it doesn't sound like day to day is so much the problem as the symptom.

[oohforeshadowing]

A symptom of what, darling?

[hauntedcalamari]

Directionless ennui. Boredom. Trying to give a damn what happens on the magical hell carnival space boat when it won't matter next week. Whatever you want to pin it down with, it sucks.

[oohforeshadowing]

Back to that again.

I'm suspecting there isn't much of a point to prolonging this conversation, is there?

[hauntedcalamari]

I mean, it's not the first time you've asked and you haven't hung up on me yet.

[oohforeshadowing]

Really? My mistake, warden.

[Click.]