Alright, if Alexi was very good at hiding his true opinions, then Joseph's fear and hesitation about revealing his own opinions is a lot more warranted. Otherwise, it was really just me still not fully understanding Alexi yet.

Not that it matters, but Joseph isn't technically hard broken anymore, and hasn't been for several generations. He's soft broken, because that's standard procedure, but he couldn't be hard broken to Alexi, and he wasn't even hard broken to Alexi's father. He's just so naturally obedient and docile at this point that there's no need. At least that's how I understood it.

I'm fine with that. I was wondering if you wanted to play it out, actually. It should be interesting.