lydiascreams | [032. And you want three wishes.]

[Today, a basket of candy showed up in everyone's cabin.

The candy will be personalized to match people's tastes. If for some reason someone's world doesn't have candy, it'll be a collection of the best candy from Lydia's Earth.

There'll be a note on the basket that says:

Be Sweeter!
♥ Lydia

Those who eat the candy will be feeling a lot more mellow, calm, and will be overall less likely to get involved in fights or anything violent.

The more candy consumed, the stronger the effect will be. The time it lasts will depend on everyone's biology and metabolism. The only side effect is that-- it might make people hungrier than usual.

She's fully expecting people to ask her about the candy, and she'll be glad to answer questions anyone might have. Even if she is pretty worn out from getting all of that done.]

[Video - Wardens]
[She's also exhausted from the other thing she did. After Arthas was released, she wasted no time before taking care of him.

When she starts the video, she has a tired, but satisfied smile on her lips.]

I have taken care of Arthas for the time being. He won't be hurting anyone.

[She turns the camera to show a bunny in a pen, and he's showing her his teeth. So she turns the camera back to herself.]

He's pretty vicious for now. I encourage anyone who knows him to come see him and talk to him. He's still himself and he'll remain this way until he starts to listen to us.

For his safety, I won't let him out of my sight, but his communicator is with him in case you want to leave him a message.

[Private - Pounce]
[She's still more than a little shaken up. She doesn't know what she was thinking, she doesn't understand how she couldn't see it before, but she does now. And she wants to fix it. So she follows Letty's suggestion and doesn't hesitate before asking for more help.]

I need your help with Arthas. It's urgent.

[Spam - Stiles]
[It's not until after she took care of everything with Arthas. Until after she spoke with Letty, took a shower and she managed to calm down that she makes her way over to his cabin with Prada in her arms.

She finds it strange that he hasn't checked in on her yet, but as she uses her key and quietly steps into his room only to find him passed out on his desk, it suddenly makes sense why.

So she closes the door quietly, sets Prada down, then silently makes her way over to her boyfriend.

If he was in bed, she wouldn't wake him. But as it is, he just looks uncomfortable.]

Stiles. [She whispers quietly, then places a hand on his arm.]

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I wanted to do something nice for everyone.

[And that is one hundred percent the truth. But since this is Ben, and she trusts him, she's willing to elaborate on that answer.]

Do you remember the Christmas sweaters and how it made people more cheerful?

Of course I do.

[He believes her. It would be easier if he didn't - or maybe not. He is accustomed, after all, to people who have never had to think about the kinds of things he has had to cope with, that Abigail has had to live with. This is not new ground for him.]

So you are utilizing the logic, now, that the Admiral's tactics are the best example to emulate, despite the widespread distaste for his or her methods?

It's hardly emulating. I just chose a similar presentation, Ben.

[Lydia takes a deep breath as she chooses her words more carefully, knowing that he'll understand everything she says as literal.]

The candy won't harm anyone. It won't make them do anything they normally wouldn't. It'll just make them calmer. Less likely to become violent and hurt others.

[And he does, certainly.

He also understands something else, something she likely didn't intend for him to, which is the problem.]

Do you remember when I asked you to consider the fact that most inmates will be, either consciously or unconsciously, of the opinion that wardens are willing to hurt them as a fact of their lives?

Yes?

[She's not sure what to make of the question, especially since the candy was given to everyone.]

The abuse these people have suffered in their lives comes in many shapes and forms, many of them harmless to others.

My own inmate, for instance, was drugged by a man interested in using her only for his own ends, for his own amusement. She trusted him implicitly and he drugged her utilizing food to make her more suggestable, so she would not question him, so she would not resist.

He brainwashed her, Lydia. Utilizing something as subtle and as undetectable as a neurostimulant.

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