The System's Cruelest Game

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ying to extort money from strangers

Objective: Discredit Subject Ethan's

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bed my arm, his f

respect. We are grieving too, you know.

A physical reprimand

oking past them, at the peeling paint on

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hair immaculate, a stark contr

ting arm around

have to deal with this. Etha

er of something like pity,

narrative: successful. Subject Ethan's perceived ins

s voice smooth and concerned. "I thin

dded, lapping

I'd seen this play

lem. Ashton,

s for Ashton's rise, for my parent

es I tried to fight, to

chose Ashton, and always be

ettled over me, he

I said, the words quiet but clear. "This was your 99t

dened. "Don't you dare

d, "How can you say

d. "Dad, Mom, maybe I