[Only voice for this one, no one gets to look him in the eye for it.]

It wasn't Rose's fault.

Or, okay, maybe it was a bit her fault, but it wasn't any more her fault than it was mine.

We tried to break the ship. Didn't try to break it like that, but I guess it figures this place has a turn everyone evil switch that gets flipped when you look too close at the wiring.

So-- if you're going to hate someone for the latest two weeks of us all torturing each other, I probably had worse intentions and less regrets than she did. Next time this happens, just, add a little tick next to the tally of non-violent escape attempts that got violent because the Barge is just built like that.

[He pauses for a moment, like he's trying to sort through a million things he wants to say, then...]

[Filtered away from Hux, Kamski, and Gortys.]

I don't blame people for being angry, I just--

I know the company line is that I should just work on graduating and ignore everything else about this place-- and I know that half of you already have your comments typed out to call me a crybaby, or a whiner, or to call this a tantrum, because only babies care if things are bad, or if they're fucking-- angry. Or, guilty, or--

[A deep breath, then, with careful, controlled flatness:]

I knew this place was fucked while I was still a warden. I felt like there were inmates who didn't deserve to be inmates, and I knew the whole thing was-- dysfunctional and cruel. I kept the job because there were more kind people here than I've ever met in my entire life, and I didn't want to leave.

Part of why getting demoted sucked so hard was because I knew what system I just got stuck in. And I knew why I was okay with it: because I was always kind of one of the bad guys in the story. But there are so many people here who I just--

[Who he's gotten used to being better than him.]

I don't get how you can just do nothing.

Not trying to attack anyone, not making excuses. I'm just saying. I don't get it.

[And with that, the post ends.]

[ooc: lol Rhys does not have his communicator and probably won't for at least a little while after posting this, so there might not actually be any replies! Or maybe replies from a bug guy? Who knows it's a lucky dip!.]