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[personal profile] zauneyete 2026-02-06 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
It's difficult to live in the undercity and not accrue debt. It's how they keep us from trying to break away from their control.

Indebted and barely surviving is how they kept us in the mines, when I was a boy.
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[personal profile] zauneyete 2026-02-18 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
Very. They put us there when I was a boy.

They, of course, being Topside. Think of them as similar to Karteria's upper classes, or Patho-Gen. People who saw me and mine as laborers and worth nothing more than what we could lift, manufacture, or pick out of the ground.
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[personal profile] zauneyete 2026-02-18 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
Last time I tried, they shot some of us on a bridge, murdered a good number of us, and the few that were left were divided on whether to capitulate and do what they wanted anyway, or keep fighting.

I still bear scars from that day, and the lessons learned tend to stick with someone.