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Quentin Coldwater ([personal profile] magician_king) wrote in [personal profile] biocomposer 2019-07-04 01:55 pm (UTC)

"It was more complicated than that."

He says, and sips his tonic.

"Steve had- a pretty severe case of PTSD. And while I tried to talk to him about it pretty often, he just brushed me off. Kept the conversation about nothing. Met with me for breakfast every day and politely discussed the goings on on the boat. This until he had a flashback so severe he killed someone." And pinching the bridge of his nose. "It says something about this place that I genuinely don't remember who, but it was a full on, uncontrolled, violent snap- and I logged online to let people know it wasn't a psychotic murderer but an inmate in crisis, and commented to the other wardens that how the fuck are people supposed to graduate when they're weighed down with trauma and no one here is doing shit to help them with it? In my head it made sense to protect him from community retaliation. He experienced it as such a major violation of his privacy that I don't even really tell the whole story any more, and he graduated at least a year ago."

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