He knew what Libra was up to: he’d had training on this before he started trench raiding, in case of capture. They would treat you kindly and offer you advantages if you behaved as they asked. You didn’t have to betray your own side or aid the enemy: you just had to make that first little compromise of abstaining from disobedience or defiance, and it would be rewarded. Because once you’d compromised with the enemy, it would become easier and easier to cooperate with him, and from there it was a very short step to collaboration.
