[Liem lets out a soft, dry chuckle at the direction of John’s query.]
Well, no. Though I haven’t yet encountered the need.
[He’s definitely asking the right questions, now; there are surely any number of things that a man like Liem would rather spend a few days in jail than endure, but the nature of those things is bound to be very different from the kind of thing that landed Gen there.]
I find that I avoid most troublesome things just fine on my own — but if I were to take leave of my senses for a while, I’d certainly rather if I returned to them to find that someone else had taken charge of me in the interim.
[Hm! What a normal way to look at potential imprisonment. It also might hint at why Liem himself hasn’t paid Gen’s bail to let him go free, despite his remorse over how things turned out between them. Gen’s actions got him arrested, and as far as Liem is concerned, it’d do him some good to cool off for a while before being let out.]
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Well, no. Though I haven’t yet encountered the need.
[He’s definitely asking the right questions, now; there are surely any number of things that a man like Liem would rather spend a few days in jail than endure, but the nature of those things is bound to be very different from the kind of thing that landed Gen there.]
I find that I avoid most troublesome things just fine on my own — but if I were to take leave of my senses for a while, I’d certainly rather if I returned to them to find that someone else had taken charge of me in the interim.
[Hm! What a normal way to look at potential imprisonment. It also might hint at why Liem himself hasn’t paid Gen’s bail to let him go free, despite his remorse over how things turned out between them. Gen’s actions got him arrested, and as far as Liem is concerned, it’d do him some good to cool off for a while before being let out.]