I wonder whether he knows his captors are listening in and his spiel is really for them. It would make perfect sense. Well, not the part about the candles, but listing his influential friends would. I entertain the idea for quite a while, but he doesn’t behave like someone who knows he’s being watched. He doesn’t look for the mirrors or holes in the wall, he talks directly to us, or rather at us, because he doesn’t expect an answer. I try to ask why he’s in jail, but I can’t get a word in. I wait for him to stop to take a breath but he doesn’t.
I can’t figure out why Control threw him in with us. I’m sure he’s not here to ask Ebrach questions. This situation reminds me in a bizarre way of Blade torturing Scout in the woods. I have a horrible urge to scream at him to at least ask us someth
