'If there's a specific person you think would respond better to the idea of a protest, there's no reason not to tell them that version. But-' Tayrey shakes her head, looking faintly disappointed by her own conclusions, 'it seems to me that far more of the population here would be willing to try to break a rule out of curiosity than as an act of rebellion.'

Too many of them are comfortable. Complicit. Even fond of their kidnapper, with no reason to challenge his rules, even the bizarre ones.