[ in retrospect, those words should've sat strangely in iris' mouth too, but there's something about being here, away from the situation, away from his world, that makes it all that much easier to say.

still, some lessons are still fresh on his mind. like learning when to keep his mouth shut. ]

The.. place I was living at before all this was kind of cut off from the rest of the world. [ for their own good, he'd once believed. now he's almost certain it was simply to keep them all in the dark, and indebted. ] So a lot of things are still pretty new.