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[Phone call! To the whole town! Except the drones and the usual meddling authority figures. The call is in a moderately hushed tone, but he's easily understandable.]

So, I see that there are many new people, and you may count yourselves as lucky as you can in this place because Dist the Rose is here to take care of you all. I'm sure you've been informed as to the basics of Mayfield, but I've put together a lovely little primer for just this kind of occasion, giving you all of the details you need to bring you fully up to speed, including the most important things that have been inflicted upon us since the first of us can remember arriving here. If you would like to be informed, then come to the library to pick up a copy. If you can't find it, ask any drone where it is, they'll be able to tell you. Look for a gorgeous man with pale hair; someone as extraordinary as myself will stand out.

[And, just a little louder but no so much so that he's quite up to normal talking level.]

And be sure to pick up your free library card! Knowledge is power and all that.

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[And there Dist will be, flitting about, stacking things and shelving things and generally keeping himself busy. He'll also be available to assist anyone who just so happens to be in the library themselves, though every so often he'll have to stop and sit to rest a bit, possibly get down a granola bar outside the view of the head librarian. He can't fit his chair through the door, let alone down the aisles of books, so he's walking everywhere and carrying things and with his condition this tires him out quickly.]

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There have been efforts, but they've all splintered. It's...

[He looks over his shoulder, then leans in.]

People disappear. Stay here for a while, you'll see; all those drones walking around? We think they were all people like us, once. We lose people all the time. Sometimes they come back, usually they don't. Sometimes they don't remember being here when they do come back.

[He sounds personally affronted by the whole thing.]

[At the mention of the possibility of all the drones having been regular people once her eyes go wide. She had heard things that there was potential to be turned into that, but she hadn't been quite sure if some of them had not been created for that specific purpose. Empty shells... to be able to turn people into empty shells was quite frightening.]

Living yet soulless, what a horrible fate to befall a person. I can see where trying to keep any order would be difficult in such a situation.

It's happened to me. So many times... been turned into a drone and had people taken from me. They don't care, and they don't discriminate. It's meted out as punishment as regularly as it is given out randomly.

[He'd spit if it weren't a disgusting habit, and if he weren't inside a library. He's obviously disgusted.]

I just lost a week.

I am sorry to hear that, it must be a very trying thing to live with.... What is considered worth punishment? What would make such a punishment necessary?

[Though she sounds and looks concerned, in the back of her mind she can't help but think that is a very effective way to deal with troublemakers and very invasive way to punish someone. It would an interesting method to implement on the souls of the damned.]

It's...

[Dist exhales sharply, running his hand through his hair.]

It's notoriously inconsistent. I've been murdered with no repercussions to my murderer, and some have gotten droned for minor crimes committed in the streets. No one knows what the limit is. Just don't mess with Grady; he attacks and drones at the drop of a hat.

[She rather expected something like that. Just looking at how people were placed implied a lack of order or consistency. It all went against her sensibilities as a judge. If you were going to do something you should do it properly, punishments should reflect equally to the crime committed.]

I wish I could say I was surprised, but from what I have seen so far that is almost an expected response.

Mayfield doesn't make sense. I haven't figured out if they do it to confuse us or if they're genuinely idiots.

I am more under the impression they are foolish than purposeful, or simply irregular and chaotic in nature.

Whichever it is, it makes life very difficult for those of us stuck here. When dealing with day-to-day life, it doesn't much matter.

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