<span style="font-family:Acme">Her answer to his comment at dinner came quickly and naturally; Brandy didn’t even need to think about how to reply to his comment about why they were winning or how. Her answer just existed. “They’re not going to win. In fact, he’s going to realize that I’m not like any other toy he’s ever had and he’s going to realize it quite quickly. You’ll come to see, I’m sure.” And there wasn’t a hint of doubt in her tone, either. <br/>
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It wasn’t that she was necessarily refusing to cover his back if needed. Rather, Brandy knew that if he’d kept his mouth shut, then his back wouldn’t need watching in the first place. That was the part that frustrated her a bit more than she liked. <br/>
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“I’ll trust people who show me they’re worthy of being trusted. And generally they do it by keeping themselves out of dangerous situations when it can easily be avoided.” There were exceptions, obviously, to almost every single rule that existed, though. Only time would tell if he actually was an exception or not, though. It wasn’t something Brandy could possibly know right away just by a simple conversation. <br/>
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Despite her frustration with him, though, some of the only open seats happened to be over by where Aaron chose to sit and she made her way over there quite readily. She didn’t say anything to him throughout the meal, but clearly she felt safer by him than she did by Victor and his gang. Whether that was an important detail or not, though, remained entirely unseen and likely wouldn’t come into play until much much later in whatever dangerous game they had just started playing. <br/>
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Dinner didn’t take long at all and soon after that, the crews of the mess hall were carefully and cautiously ushered towards the barracks. No one was really rushed and neither was anyone quite hearded as extensively as cattle would be, but it was still forced in the end. No one here in the community would ever be allowed to stay out all night because they all had just enough freedom to the point where leaving them unattended for an entire night would be dangerous. Once they were all in their own living quarters, they had privacy, but it was the only place where privacy truly existed within the entire community. Even the bathrooms were monitored at times. Whenever they tried to leave the bathrooms alone, things went wrong in there. <br/>
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The system that was designed to keep everything within safe limits apparently had a few failures within it, though. Some of the guards had been paid off and that meant a few of the prisoners had their own free reign during hours when everything was usually locked up tight. That was what allowed Victor and his gang of thugs to sustain their own dominance within the community and no one who had enough power to stop it really cared. The main goal of the communities, after all, was to keep that kind of crime within a contained environment and even on the loose where he was, his violence was contained to people who had “earned it.”<br/>
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Most prisoners were locked in their living quarters although no one could force them to sleep when the lights went out. Brandy, for one, had very low expectations for what she’d be earning as far as sleep was concerned on this particular evening, though. She knew she would have visitors and she was actually prepared for them when they walked in to her space. <br/>
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It happened differently than she would’ve expected, though. Brandy had expected to get one of the minions first to warm her up and then Victor to follow; that was what most smart thugs did, anyway, in the places she’d been before. Apparently Victor wasn’t the smart kind. She could work with that, though. Her eyes flickered towards the door when she heard it open and she was kneeling on her bed as they walked in. Smiling at them, she greeted, “I’ve been waiting for you although I wasn’t expecting so many at once. A bit cramped in here, isn’t it?” <br/>
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Oddly enough, she was already stripped down to undergarments and they were as enticing as prison garbs allowed for her to be.</span>