Christine’s Reviews > For Certain Values of Family > Status Update

The unofficial killing of resisters by agencies like Cit was much like the unofficial annex deaths at I&I, only without the complication of a postmortem trial. If citizens were too well connected or difficult to arrest for other reasons, then a quiet accident helped the Administration run smoothly.

Memories surfaced, unpleasant and unwanted, of what it was like to be a child, trapped in a world of adults with incomprehensible rules and demands that could never be satisfied. Anger he couldn’t control welled up

“Warrick’s “serious conversation” voice normally gave Toreth a reflexive urge to leave the building as quickly as possible. The urge was dampened, in this case, by the fact that he was naked, and that Warrick had spent the last half hour massaging him into a boneless heap of pure relaxation. Maybe that had been the point.”
(First paragraph and how I’ve missed them so. I love their dynamic at this point)