[The top is a better vantage point, to be sure, but it comes with cold metal under his feet and the close proximity to fitful cries. He just grits his teeth and scans the room.]
'Course I did. Got out, stole a ship, ain't been back since.
[It sounds so simple, but it wasn't, and there's a lot that story omits, but what does it matter? The ending is happy even if what it took to get there isn't.
His eyes catch a glint of imperfection that he wouldn't have noticed had he not come up here, located where one set of cages meets the wall beside the door they came in from. His eyes light up and he bounds across the tops of the cages and jumps down.] Found it!
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'Course I did. Got out, stole a ship, ain't been back since.
[It sounds so simple, but it wasn't, and there's a lot that story omits, but what does it matter? The ending is happy even if what it took to get there isn't.
His eyes catch a glint of imperfection that he wouldn't have noticed had he not come up here, located where one set of cages meets the wall beside the door they came in from. His eyes light up and he bounds across the tops of the cages and jumps down.] Found it!