[ Her lips tighten. Though...she doesn't know about that unconstitutional part - but hey, his outrage fuels hers, she's not about to slow him down. ]
It's not in my world, though. In my world, it's just part of the machine that goes to feed the system. The desperately poor get swept up off the streets and recycled into the most menial labor. They do the most horrid and dangerous jobs to work off their debt. And they never have a chance to speak for themselves. And no one speaks for them. We haven't got anyone to protect us.
[ She lifts her chin, her posture mimicking the boy's. Stubbornly, fiercely, she says: ]
But I'm going to protect them. I'm going to defend my people, like no one has ever done. I'm going to crush all the injustice, all the evil of that system, and remake it into something kinder.
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[ Her lips tighten. Though...she doesn't know about that unconstitutional part - but hey, his outrage fuels hers, she's not about to slow him down. ]
It's not in my world, though. In my world, it's just part of the machine that goes to feed the system. The desperately poor get swept up off the streets and recycled into the most menial labor. They do the most horrid and dangerous jobs to work off their debt. And they never have a chance to speak for themselves. And no one speaks for them. We haven't got anyone to protect us.
[ She lifts her chin, her posture mimicking the boy's. Stubbornly, fiercely, she says: ]
But I'm going to protect them. I'm going to defend my people, like no one has ever done. I'm going to crush all the injustice, all the evil of that system, and remake it into something kinder.