#inner workings

"This ain't too far from my last run in with the law."

[Kri scrambles to escape The Archivist's office, tripping over a stack of books. The Archivist holds her pen in a white-knuckled grip, and she waves the other. The door swings open, and Kri is shunted out into the library as though grabbed by a gardener pulling a weed. The door slams shut.]

Hrm.. we are a high control group.. but we have to be that way. I think some of the stuff we do would be bad if some other people did it but not us, since we're holding up reality and not some guy's pyramid scheme or dangerous delusions. You're right though. I don't want Liar to look and then drown me in the pool or take me to the dentist again

Mhmm, true. I just wanted to see what she would say. Magnolia asked where I got that question from, and I said I was reading about getting people out of them and thought about how we're pretty isolated. She said that's for safety. That makes sense. Lots of people do want to kill us. Then I said how we can't really leave and they picked me when some of my classmates are also really smart but more stable, and they erased some of my memories. Magnolia didn't have much of an answer for that. They said that I was just deemed the best fit and it's for security and to not talk about it to the others