[He says in immediate agreement, feeling no shame whatsoever about leaning so easily into a word as inflammatory as "hate." The goats here have given him nothing but a terrible time; bullies, the lot of them. If Henry had to create a sliding scale of "how I feel about certain wildlife", then spiders would be at the top, and goats... very close to the bottom. Thanks, Solvunn.
The rest, though, receives a response that takes only minutely more time to consider before speaking.]
...But no. I don't feel the same. You're right; there are worse prisons to be in.
[This could be HNL. This could be his old family house and the new life it represented when nothing was going to change and he knew it and his parents didn't.]
But a prison's still a prison, Eddie. I'm not sure this is the life I would have chosen for myself, no matter how peaceful it can be here. So, in the end, my choice is still stripped from me. And how can anyone be happy about that?
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[He says in immediate agreement, feeling no shame whatsoever about leaning so easily into a word as inflammatory as "hate." The goats here have given him nothing but a terrible time; bullies, the lot of them. If Henry had to create a sliding scale of "how I feel about certain wildlife", then spiders would be at the top, and goats... very close to the bottom. Thanks, Solvunn.
The rest, though, receives a response that takes only minutely more time to consider before speaking.]
...But no. I don't feel the same. You're right; there are worse prisons to be in.
[This could be HNL. This could be his old family house and the new life it represented when nothing was going to change and he knew it and his parents didn't.]
But a prison's still a prison, Eddie. I'm not sure this is the life I would have chosen for myself, no matter how peaceful it can be here. So, in the end, my choice is still stripped from me. And how can anyone be happy about that?