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Oh. So you'll kiss the sweet one's arse and give them what they want, I guess. Because you think they'll actually help you, even though they're not going to. Yeah?

Yeah. Not so sure if many people actually fall for it though

[Don't listen to him, Kitty; he's all talk. When he got sent to prison, he wound up asking to call his Dad for his one phone call, remembered that he couldn't, and looked so upset that the cops just wound up patting him ineffectually on the back. Whoops.]

I don't know. When you're in a bad situation, you get desperate. I made a bad deal myself once, and I like to think that I'm not exactly gullible.

I guess so. It might be a little different when you're always warned about the cops though and what they'll try and do

What, did you get warned about the cops a lot? Is that where your incredible savvy and hard-boiled suspicion come from?

Oh ha ha

I did get warned about what to do if I ever got arrested though. I'm pretty sure that's normal

[It's a product of growing up on the border, around a lot of gang activity. Being Mexican doesn't help. Jaime has not necessarily put two and two together.]

Advice more useful than 'You probably did something to deserve it, just cooperate,' I'm guessing?

Oh cooperation is a big one. I mean not that you did something to deserve it just that it's usually a pretty bad idea to punch a cop or whatever

Otherwise the advice is basically to keep quiet. Don't tell them anything and they won't be able to use anything against you

Torture's not allowed where you're from, right?

No it's not. It is where you're from?

Yeah. It's pretty standard practice for us, for those who actually make it to the Tower after they're arrested. It's all REALLY broken and stupid. The police work MUCH better here with MUCH less cruelty.

Geez. That's awful. I can see why anyone would take a deal because of that

Is that why you took one?

Yeah, and so most of the time they end up with the wrong person, because of course you'd sooner admit guilt than let that happen to you. Anyway - yeah. Not for me, it was for my best friend - they'd decided he was my accomplice and were going to hurt him unless I talked. So what else could I do?

Well yeah. They'll just say what they think you want to hear right? It's much better just to talk to people

Anyway I'm really sorry that happened to you in the first place. Pretty much anyone would have made a deal at that point

Yeah, definitely. Anyway, it didn't turn out THAT bad - I held up my end of the deal but he broke his, which I KNEW was going to happen even when I was making the deal. But then I saved his stupid life and apparently my selfless nobility haunted him ever since and made him turn his life around. PLUS Jakob and I both ended up getting away. So the moral is, if you can't be smart, be inspirational.

Edited 2015-07-26 07:06 (UTC)

Well score one for Kitty Jones. I'm pretty sure that's the best possible way something like that can turn out

You guys still work together now? I mean back home?

Me and Jakob, or me and the guy who arrested me?

You and Jakob. Kind of assumed you'd want to stay as far away as possible from the guy who arrested you

Me and Jakob are still friends, yeah. He's not a revolutionary now, though - he really never was. He fled the country (that was what I was talking about earlier, with the documents - it was him who got smuggled out), but I stayed behind to keep fighting. He sends me letters every few months telling me how brilliant it is in Bruges and how I should come and join him. Weirdly, though, the guy who arrested me? Turned into one of my best friends here in this world. Until he got Ported home. I thought Mandrake was the worst, most loathsome little toad back home, but here...I really got the measure of him. It's weird the twists that get thrown at you, isn't it?

Wow. Didn't see that one coming.

It makes sense though. People can change and I know a lot of people that used this place as a blank slate. Like they could really improve themselves while they're here. It's a pretty brave thing to do I think

I do, too. Those sorts of people are quite heroic...And he was so brave, too. His childhood was so awful, and he was so brainwashed by everything they taught him, but he threw it all off. It's more than I'd be able to do, I think. I wish there were some way to really support the people trying to make a change.

There is.

I mean, you supported him didn't you?

Not really. I mean, you remember when I lied about my name, yeah? It was to hide from him, and to dig into what he was ACTUALLY doing here when he was pretending to be nice. (Never mind that he really WAS doing decent things.) I tried to undermine a few of his friendships, too, because I was just so furious that they liked someone who had done what he did. Honestly, I was really quite beastly.

Oh.

[YIKES! KITTY JONES, for shame!]

But somehow you guys managed to move past that. How did you manage that?

Well...We talked a lot. And...You remember the thing with the Hornets. Obviously. He came to help rescue me.

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