... Like that story, the one with the puppet and the kids being turned into donkeys? [ are we allowed to fourth wall her? otherwise i'll edit. ] Whoever came up with this probably just wanted some kind of cheap or easy labour, that's usually the reason for conning people and trapped them most of the time. Profit or labour.

[ #all my threads end up talking about capitalism. ]

... [ and then she kissed the killer. ] None of it's exactly fair. I don't think how much you want to live matters in the moment, if you're targeted. But, Viktor didn't seem particularly threatening.