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EXTRA GRETEL Chapter 348: Thought and Shoes
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2024-10-29 19:42:56The hour of free time afterwards solidified the idea of her being in a prison, and that Gryaz would definitely never let her come back.
After all, why would a place so hostile to those who had broken its own laws, putting them away in tiny compartments to stew for a while, hoping that they would simply die off with the inadequate food, inadequate space, inadequate healthcare, and inadequate funding that the people were to be exposed to.
Gryaz didn't care about its own prisoners, so why would it care about another nation's prisoners, especially an enemy nation's prisoners?
But then again, hypocrisy was the life blood of the system that they all lived under.
She had no idea of what was on offer, what she could so, and more importantly, where she should go.
Surely there had to be at least some sort of tiered system of activities with some more desirable and others less so, but Gretel had no idea of what was available to her and all the others.
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