once upon a time, long long ago, traffick b—oss was working on inventing a way to cover up crimes

his plan was to kidnap the people who saw the crimes, pretend to be the police, and interview them about the crimes, but instead of taking action on the information to bring the crimes to justice, he would hurt them if they talked about the crimes.

he figured this was like education, training the universe to not talk about his crimes.

it worked sometimes, and the times it didn’t work he kind of dissociated and focused on hurting the people who heard the person talk, this seemed to work just as well

then, a crafty idea hatched in traffick b—
—oss. rather than hurting the people who talked, he would hurt _other_ people if the witnesses talked. transferring the work to random passerbys seemed so much more effici—