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Chapter 21: Friend and Foe
"I wouldn't really have let you die, you know. I just needed…"
"I know."
"Doesn't it ever wake you in the middle of the night? The feeling that some day, some day very soon, they will pass that foolish law, or one just like it, and they will come for you and your children? Take you all away?"
"It does indeed."
"And what do you do, when you wake up to that?"
"I feel a great swell of pity for the poor soul who comes to that school…looking for trouble."
"Why do you come here, Charles? Oh, yes, you continue to search for hope. This plastic prison won't hold me forever. The war is still coming, Charles. I intend to fight it, by any means necessary. And to win a war it takes the will to fight it at all costs, by any means necessary. And for that reason, I will always have the advantage. No matter how you trap me, how I am contained…I will always find an escape."
"And I will always be there, old friend. Check."
"And mate."
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