R1 interrogation : S1

Instructions

☁ 【 *this message is being recorded* 】 ☁ snowdrop’s tail thudded against the cold, hard chair of the interrogation room. she’d been anticipating this moment with silent dread for quite some time now, and though she knew it would have to come eventually, snowdrop still didn’t feel ready for the questioning that was to come. their fur bristled as a shadowed figure waltzed into the room. snowdrop froze as she realized who it was, their face lit by the single dimly flickering light in the room. it was the warden herself. ❝ are you aware of the reason behind your arrest? ❞ snowdrop paused, and the thudding of their tail came to an abrupt stop, the expression they bore on their face unreadable. she twitched her ear. /oh, how i /wish/ i knew./ she thought to herself, exasperated. ❝ no ma’am; I’m afraid i do not know. ❞ ❝ do you regret what you did? ❞ snowdrop nearly opened her mouth to make a shrewd remark, but thought better of it. irritated as they were, they knew that they must remain courteous; this is what their parents taught them, and what they’d done their whole life. Courtesy was key. ❝ apologies, but I’m not quite sure exactly what i may have done, so i can’t yet evaluate whether or not i regret my decisions. ❞ ❝ did you do the right thing? ❞ were all these questions to be about what she “did”? ❝ i like to think my actions are usually in the right, yes; but then again, I’m not quite sure what i’ve done. ❞ ❝ who did you hurt? ❞ ah. so they were. ❝ as of what i know, i do not believe myself to have hurt anyone. again, I’m not quite sure what I’ve done. ❞ ❝ do you think you are guilty or innocent? ❞ /they don’t know by now-?/ ❝ i believe myself to be innocent. ❞ ❝ how do you think you compare to the rest of those in the panopticon? ❞ snowdrop’s eyes widened; how did she think she compared? her eyes narrowed. well, in truth, she believed everyone was the same; selfish and cruel. but they couldn’t say that to the warden’s face; they couldn’t call higher-ups “cruel”. they’d learned that a long time ago. ❝ i… i don’t know anyone well enough to form a proper judgement. ❞ ❝ are you emotionally unstable? ❞ snowdrop cast her gaze to the floor, narrowing her eyes at the ground instead as not to agitate the cat in front of her. of course she wasn’t. after all, she /couldn’t/ be. ❝ no, my emotions are in perfect control. ❞ ❝ what do you think of authority? ❞ authority? authority was cruelty; authority was an attempt to instill fear on others; authority was a manipulation tactic, a facade, a title. she wouldn’t say this though, of course, and instead produced something she hoped the warden would be happy to hear. ❝ authority is something to be listened to; something to be in compliance with. ❞ ❝ thank you. that is all. you may return to your cell. ❞ snowdrop gave a respectful dip of her head, and was promptly escorted off by the guards. ☁ 【 *recording ended* 】 ☁