[She means that. Answering to need is instinctive, almost a compulsion, for Iris: she'd make the effort even if she hadn't taken to Ricki so much for his own sake.]
Admiral does the choosing; 'e is pretty good at making the right matches for folk, in my experience. I've worked 'ere a bit over two years, now. Let me see - anything from a couple of weeks to a couple of months to find you a match. They get an item they can track you with - tells 'em if you die, tells 'em where you are when we're off the boat. As for power - well, they can't lock you up longer'n a week. They 'urt you for any reason but self defense they'll get the boot, unless it's a diminished responsibility deal - like, I stabbed a bloke when we 'ad that rabies epidemic, and that didn't get me the sack. That's just an occupational 'azard, if you take my meaning. Anything else, people work it out as they need it - like when I 'ad Victor, I 'ad to cook up a virus just to knock out 'is genetically engineered healing factor, one time when 'e were on a rampage.
I'd say we don't get wardens who get off on power trips, but I'd be lying. I will say we don't keep 'em for long. One absolute rule is we can't cut off your communication - so say you want a worst case scenario? You can always come to any of the rest of us.
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[She means that. Answering to need is instinctive, almost a compulsion, for Iris: she'd make the effort even if she hadn't taken to Ricki so much for his own sake.]
Admiral does the choosing; 'e is pretty good at making the right matches for folk, in my experience. I've worked 'ere a bit over two years, now. Let me see - anything from a couple of weeks to a couple of months to find you a match. They get an item they can track you with - tells 'em if you die, tells 'em where you are when we're off the boat. As for power - well, they can't lock you up longer'n a week. They 'urt you for any reason but self defense they'll get the boot, unless it's a diminished responsibility deal - like, I stabbed a bloke when we 'ad that rabies epidemic, and that didn't get me the sack. That's just an occupational 'azard, if you take my meaning. Anything else, people work it out as they need it - like when I 'ad Victor, I 'ad to cook up a virus just to knock out 'is genetically engineered healing factor, one time when 'e were on a rampage.
I'd say we don't get wardens who get off on power trips, but I'd be lying. I will say we don't keep 'em for long. One absolute rule is we can't cut off your communication - so say you want a worst case scenario? You can always come to any of the rest of us.