[ Annie glances around the cafe, pressing her lips together in a thin line. Heropa isolates people into a certain mindset, one that's less omnipresent in the other cities. There's still that edge of hysterical reverence, but dulled, dimmed down, escapable.
She turns her focus back to Wally. ]
You were so intent on learning if you could skip out on school altogether you missed the biggest reasons why showing up is to your advantage. Are you too comfortable with this world because it's similar to your own? It's not your home. This place doesn't care about you, and as soon as they can figure out how, we're getting jettisoned back.
Just like the last group of imPorts. We can only hope that's before any of us settle in and have families, or we get that same enforced separation and forcible ejection as they did.
[ They're being so well and thoroughly used. Annie acknowledges it; she sure as hell doesn't like it, but it's there, plain to see. Their worth and return to functionality is just as weapons.
Nothing new there, except for whatever reason, the word "hero" had been slapped on to make it more palatable. ]
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[ Annie glances around the cafe, pressing her lips together in a thin line. Heropa isolates people into a certain mindset, one that's less omnipresent in the other cities. There's still that edge of hysterical reverence, but dulled, dimmed down, escapable.
She turns her focus back to Wally. ]
You were so intent on learning if you could skip out on school altogether you missed the biggest reasons why showing up is to your advantage. Are you too comfortable with this world because it's similar to your own? It's not your home. This place doesn't care about you, and as soon as they can figure out how, we're getting jettisoned back.
Just like the last group of imPorts. We can only hope that's before any of us settle in and have families, or we get that same enforced separation and forcible ejection as they did.
[ They're being so well and thoroughly used. Annie acknowledges it; she sure as hell doesn't like it, but it's there, plain to see. Their worth and return to functionality is just as weapons.
Nothing new there, except for whatever reason, the word "hero" had been slapped on to make it more palatable. ]