"I know. Training was over a year of just, do as you're fuckin' told, do it better'n anybody else." A shrug. "I was used to it by then."
Which is an observation, not a criticism, because he had already encountered it - in Marines, in his own home life. 'Would like to' doesn't mean 'are entitled to'. He knows exactly how little a person is entitled to, in most parts of their lives.
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Which is an observation, not a criticism, because he had already encountered it - in Marines, in his own home life. 'Would like to' doesn't mean 'are entitled to'. He knows exactly how little a person is entitled to, in most parts of their lives.
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He realizes, and spares him a glance.
"You ever worry that in twenty years, you'll wake up back here, on my side of the bars?"
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"Yeah. Sometimes."
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He wonders, glancing up.
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"S'like you said. Don't think any of us got the right to know, do we."
Though in some instances - this one, for example - he doesn't think anyone does.
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Is all he can caution.
"Always."