How lenient of you. Are you as generous with every thief and pickpocket who might have fallen on hard times?
[Everyone has a sob story. There probably isn’t a single person that Gepard’s arrested who wouldn’t have been able to tell him any number of tragic tales about why they had to break the law, and some of them might have even been true! But he didn’t let them off light. He still did his duty, let them bring their sad stories to the Architects for arbitration.]
[So why is Sampo the exception? Is it because his situation is so strange?]
Even if you didn’t want to put me in prison…
[The same thought that Gepard had before occurs to him— if he’s not going to be tossed in a prison cell, he could be tossed into a specimen cage. A curiosity to be studied, for doctors to poke and prod. Possibly a worse fate than just being thrown into a cell and left to rot.]
[Not that he’d stick around in either a prison cell or a laboratory, anyway. He’d be out of there and off-planet before Gepard would even have the chance to chase him down again, and he’d blacklist Jarilo-VI for good. Planet non grata, never coming back.]
no subject
[Everyone has a sob story. There probably isn’t a single person that Gepard’s arrested who wouldn’t have been able to tell him any number of tragic tales about why they had to break the law, and some of them might have even been true! But he didn’t let them off light. He still did his duty, let them bring their sad stories to the Architects for arbitration.]
[So why is Sampo the exception? Is it because his situation is so strange?]
Even if you didn’t want to put me in prison…
[The same thought that Gepard had before occurs to him— if he’s not going to be tossed in a prison cell, he could be tossed into a specimen cage. A curiosity to be studied, for doctors to poke and prod. Possibly a worse fate than just being thrown into a cell and left to rot.]
[Not that he’d stick around in either a prison cell or a laboratory, anyway. He’d be out of there and off-planet before Gepard would even have the chance to chase him down again, and he’d blacklist Jarilo-VI for good. Planet non grata, never coming back.]