I just had to say that I love love love Occam's Razor's premise. It's so much fun, and I really look forward to the world building you do! I keep thinking about Book!Stratt and how exactly she got a lot of her top staff, which is kidnapping with varying levels of force/coercion. Heck, Bob Redell in the book was freed/kidnapped from prison, and the reason he was in jail was because his negligence got seven people killed (and he embezzled millions, but that's less relevant to my point). My point, which is I keep thinking about Grace deciding to rescue/free/benevolently kidnap Simon to Erid because wow, the C.O.I. seems to just be... Feeding people to the blood ocean? That. That does not seem constructive. How about we try something else?
Ava: You can't just steal a convict.
Grace: Well, by the deal you set, he's free now, and also, Stratt kidnaps at least half her employees, including me, so she can't be mad when I follow in her footsteps.
Ava: He blew up Filament Station!
Simon: I didn't mean to!
Grace: Okay. Um. Well, two wrongs don't make a right, y'know? If you kill Simon, that doesn't bring 62 people back to life, that just means 63 people are dead, and that helps no one. Have you heard of the term restorative justice?
Ava: You are bringing a murderer into your midst.
Grace: Wouldn't be my first manslaughter felon coworker, and Simon seems a lot nicer than Bob, so. Bye?
I haven't ready the book, (I got beef with the author after reading Artemis) so I'll be working with movie characters. But that is good to know about! Also, I think you'll like where this is going. 😁
