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Y'know I've gotten so used to changing during that flood, myself, that I kinda forgot how much fun it is to watch everyone else run around for a change. ...No more than a couple at a time, though. Cute as some of you are when you're little, you're fucking terrifying as a swarm. You'd think I would have remembered what it was like in Pleasantville. But that's what you get for forgetting the past. It just happens all over again.

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Want to play some cards?

[Private to West]

So...day after everybody grew up again. What'd you get up to?

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Little ones fight between themselves... There was no reason for worry.

But I would have liked to keep some.

Oh, it's not that. They're just a bit overwhelming in large numbers. Moreso than large numbers of adults for some reason.

Cage them!

A swarm of children.

That's the word I was looking for all through that flood.

Not fond of children?

More like feel powerless in the face of.

You've been through this before and you forgot?

Last couple times I've been affected, myself.

Ah, I see. I didn't realize this sort of thing had affected wardens in the past.

Sometimes it does.

Apart from my shift? Very little, I'm afraid.

How about in the evening after dinner?

I went to the gym.

Certainly not when I went by there.

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Then perhaps you just missed me. I would hate to think you stopped by the showers to find me, too.

You weren't in the showers.

...tell me you didn't check.

Nothing I've never seen before.

Then you must have just missed me. Why do you ask?

So you were where then?

Why don't you come right out and say what you're after?

Because I'm stubborn and I'm the one asking questions. Work with me, Henry.

Let's go through a day in the life for a moment. Nothing of note, you say, besides your shift at work. So that leaves common locations -- the gym, the showers, Billy's cabin, yours on the off day perhaps, the common rooms. Have I left anything out?

The library.

Right, library.

So you were reading in the library. After your shift in the kitchen and dinner. And going to the gym. And showering.

No, I'm simply listing that as a place you missed.

Well then I commend you for not grasping at the straw I was actually leaving when I started looking for you.

So let's go back to the beginning. Day after the flood ended. Evening. After dinner. What'd you get up to?

I'm not going to play this game with you, Morgan. You can tell me what you're after, or this conversation is finished.

I'm after the truth, and I'm giving you the opportunity to tell it to me.

You're clearly waiting to accuse me of something. Do it already.

No, I was waiting for you to either show a little respect and tell me the truth or lie to me.

You've already made up your mind.

Because you've been lying to me since we started this conversation.

I had as uneventful an evening as any other. That you couldn't find me isn't my concern.

That my item was responding to something you were doing at the same time a resident hairless asshole was getting the snot beaten out of him should be your concern.

You think I had something to do with that rubbish? When was the last time I even got into a fight, Morgan? Riot aside, I believe it was, ah. Yes. Jacen Solo, nearly two years ago.

And Jim.

Jim is an extenuating circumstance, and you're well aware of that.

Henry, have I ever explained to you how my compass works?

As any other warden item, I imagine.

So you know it tells me when you're doing something particularly bad -- usually violent -- as well as when you're in danger.

And it didn't occur to you that I might have been temporarily in danger?

No, because those are two different signals.

I have nothing to confess.

That's fine. Then you can meditate on the matter while you're on custodial duty. Two weeks for lying to me and another two for being so damn bad at it.

That's fine.

Good. I'll be along to get you started at 4 am tomorrow.

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Private - Pffth, he was in the army, he can deal with custodial

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