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Okay. I was just up on the deck? That's fucked up.

Why make a starship look like a boat? A regular old boat? How is that supposed to make people more comfortable. This is about the ponciest of white collar prisons I've ever seen, and that's a hell of a way to prevent escapes? But this is a goddamn boat in space. If there was any level of "at ease" that was supposed to happen with that, I think it missed the mark.

The view is pretty, though, even if it doesn't make any sense.

[She clears her throat after that introduction.]

My name is Jeryline. [No last name added.] Your Admiral, in a miracle of cosmic intelligence, has seen fit to make me a warden. [Something in her tone says this is really funny to her. The stuff she's gotten roped into lately has been a little bit beyond even her wildest expectations.] I would kind of like to get a rundown of how things work here. [Because last time she got a "stab them in the eyes" and "they can't get past the blood" and whatever she saw. She has a lot of memories that aren't hers, but she would have liked some more explanations, thank you.]

From what I gathered, someone fucked up, he or she does not know that there was a fuck up, I'll have to point out to them how they fucked up until they realize they fucked up and won't fuck up again, and then I can go back home, right?

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[She doesn't judge, because she's met plenty of ladies with some bass in their voice.] So I figured. I'm guessin' middle management?

[A chuckle.] Wardens are. I'm not one of those, though.

Sounds like we're submiddle management then. How tough is it on inmates. Doesn't look it from here? But that's just me.

I admit I prefer the diet here over bread and water, and the freedom to move about. But . . . many here carry their prisons in their own minds and would thrust their own brand of evil upon others. I have my reasons for being here, I suppose, but I don't think that should lead to being in fear for my life from another Inmate. I would wish that some weren't here, or could be constrained further.

The prisons I'm used to aren't particularly safe either. Not that its a great endorsement for violence; I don't know what the hell is wrong with people.

There were quite a few I was in with that I wished weren't around.

I don't know either. I have killed people, but there were reasons, and it wasn't like it seems to be here. People kill here for reasons that schoolboys would brawl over. It is completely pointless.

I was in with people that did that, too. Why some of these women would act a damn fool over a man they were better off without, I don't understand. But they didn't get the freedoms y'all seem to get here.

I am hoping it's because it gives us a chance to grow. Just not being allowed to do what's wrong isn't the same as learning to choose not to do it.

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