I'm... special. [ He laughs, but it's bitter. ] You saw it with Rollo and Livio. Not many of us keep a whole lot of our will. It makes me a liability, but it means I can do things the others can't. Blend in, pretend. I can be good at it, when I don't have my nose out of joint about being made to do it as punishment.
If I left, they might kill me. They might put me back in, see if they can break me this time around. But they'd want to replace me. I don't know how many kids they'd burn through, trying to replicate their results.
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I'm... special. [ He laughs, but it's bitter. ] You saw it with Rollo and Livio. Not many of us keep a whole lot of our will. It makes me a liability, but it means I can do things the others can't. Blend in, pretend. I can be good at it, when I don't have my nose out of joint about being made to do it as punishment.
If I left, they might kill me. They might put me back in, see if they can break me this time around. But they'd want to replace me. I don't know how many kids they'd burn through, trying to replicate their results.
I won't risk it. Not even for you.