"Yeah, that's how they get you. Start thinking you deserve it, that they're right, start believing them and then they've got you. You'll do whatever they want because you think they know better or something." He frowns, because boy does that sound familiar.

"Someone must have tried to kill him by now, I just don't know who. Maybe they're not even here anymore if they did. I just can't imagine this many people with weapons and all the folks with combat training and no one tried to put a bullet in him."