"The castle doesn't generally play fair with this kind of thing. If a regular could keep half of the people here locked in then a fraction of what it pulls would never work..."

He'd been subjected to this abuse once or twice, though he personally lacked much ability to do anything about it, outside of the gun he nearly always carried now. But the gun was for other people. The castle didn't care about bullets.

"What did you do before that? With all the red?"