[ He says it softly, accepting that though it doesn't make it hurt any less. He can't hide that, and with Ragnor he wouldn't. He hadn't seen a reason to hide things from him at all. ]
I know that too. They want us to believe those contracts matter but in the end, they really don't. Not to them. Only in so much as they matter to us.
But at least this time, best I can tell, he wasn't being punished. Just used.
[ He was just part of the means of punishing another. ]
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[ He says it softly, accepting that though it doesn't make it hurt any less. He can't hide that, and with Ragnor he wouldn't. He hadn't seen a reason to hide things from him at all. ]
I know that too. They want us to believe those contracts matter but in the end, they really don't. Not to them. Only in so much as they matter to us.
But at least this time, best I can tell, he wasn't being punished. Just used.
[ He was just part of the means of punishing another. ]
Which that they don't give us any say in.