For the record, Donald Bastion - [i]Dr.[/i] Bastion, thankyouverymuch - wasn't reflecting on a damn thing.  He found the whole lot of them - they who judged him - to be asinine fools.  They had failed to grasp the nuances of the whole situation.  The bloody thing had WORKED, and there was no way to undo that fact, no matter WHAT anybody said about ethics and-  Oh, nevermind...

So no, Bastion wasn't on reflection.  He was keeping himself somewhat calm by way of listening to an audio reading of [i]The Curious Case of Charles Dexter Ward.[/i]  That was until the guards came, of course.  A woman in the usual soldier garb told him to get out, and he replied "That's [i]Doctor[/i] Six-Oh-One-Oh-Oh to you, missy.".  Bastion didn't like being confused for the riff-raff, which is why he also complained of the color of his jumpsuit.  He understood, functionally, why it was bright orange, but it hurt his eyes to look at it.

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[QuicksaveKid]: Just a note here.  Bastion does tend to gab on a bit.  Even the editors had trouble with his dialogue in these files.  I've run a slightly-better program through it to keep him...endurable.

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So, the canteen, then.  Bastion really hated being incarcerated anywhere, though they did seem to treat them with a slight modocum of decency in this place.  The only problem was what sort of things they were going to subject them to here.  Bastion had taken this willingly because he believed in the logic of it, plus the rewards seemed worthy enough.  The irony would vindicate him.  Good.  However, he would have to admit that the [i]people[/i] may irritate him to no end.

For instance, those people bickering on end about whether cops may lie or not while he was getting his food...  He almost laughed, but his own bitter cynicism about his court case and the general aggravation towards the naive shown through.  His tray came down onto a table and he sat down with it, giving those who were conversing on this topic an 'Are you serious?' look.

"Well, of [i]course[/i] cops lie.  They're human and they do not like being [i]caught[/i].  That which 'does a bad' and does not wish to confess as such will lie.  It is not merely common, but the only sensible option if they want things to go their way."

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[QuicksaveKid]: The best and worst part about Bastion is that he's smart.  Maybe it'll see him through or maybe it'll kill 'im.  Only the Foundation knows for sure.