Oh, we were. Obedience was the entire point. [puppets... Maleficent couldn't have had any idea how accurate that was.]
People had all kinds of reasons for volunteering. Her family had a long history of Kel service. I was from a planet no one had ever heard of. I think....
[she shakes her head. bewildered. everything about her childhood is fuzzed over, like a half-remembered dream. ravens, quadratic equations drawn in the sand, the state-mandated education, the awareness that at any time, if anyone (who?) slipped up, the hammer might fall.]
I thought I wanted to belong.
[it had been an escape from one unbearable thing to another, but back then, making the choice had felt like freedom.]
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People had all kinds of reasons for volunteering. Her family had a long history of Kel service. I was from a planet no one had ever heard of. I think....
[she shakes her head. bewildered. everything about her childhood is fuzzed over, like a half-remembered dream. ravens, quadratic equations drawn in the sand, the state-mandated education, the awareness that at any time, if anyone (who?) slipped up, the hammer might fall.]
I thought I wanted to belong.
[it had been an escape from one unbearable thing to another, but back then, making the choice had felt like freedom.]