Mello gave a grunt that might have seemed noncommittal to someone who wasn't sensitive to his moods.
"When you get a new roommate, the standard starting supplies will return," he said with convincing certainty. "If they reappeared every night, we wouldn't wake up our first night with exactly thirty pens and fully charged batteries. Most of us moved in to rooms that used to hold other patients."
"Things we steal and hide in our rooms don't get confiscated because Landel wants to see what we'll do with them. If anything, it's a sign that he controls even more than we suspect. The supply cabinets are restocked every night, so he knows they're being raided. You don't just misplace a half-dozen jars of sulfuric acid."
Mello lifted his hand to his mouth, gnawing on a nail as he watched his rival with conspicuously narrowed eyes. "Don't mind him," he said with a glance to Junior. "He hasn't been here for long."
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"When you get a new roommate, the standard starting supplies will return," he said with convincing certainty. "If they reappeared every night, we wouldn't wake up our first night with exactly thirty pens and fully charged batteries. Most of us moved in to rooms that used to hold other patients."
"Things we steal and hide in our rooms don't get confiscated because Landel wants to see what we'll do with them. If anything, it's a sign that he controls even more than we suspect. The supply cabinets are restocked every night, so he knows they're being raided. You don't just misplace a half-dozen jars of sulfuric acid."
Mello lifted his hand to his mouth, gnawing on a nail as he watched his rival with conspicuously narrowed eyes. "Don't mind him," he said with a glance to Junior. "He hasn't been here for long."