Alfonso "Fonzie" Caprio

[Zapp]

Days passed, Caprio not moving at all, constantly confined to the bed. After awhile, when all hope and resistance seemed to have been gone from him, they allowed him up in confined conditions for exercise. To quote them, they “didn’t want their best subject to be unhealthy”. Talking about him as if he were some sort of thing, instead of human. By careful listening, and appearing to be docile and defeated (to the point where they hardly noticed him, except as someone notices furnishings in a room), he learned what he was part of.

The first piece information was rather obvious: he was on Atka Station. The second was a shocker, though: he was about to be transported to Planet New Tokyo to be displayed before the Emperor, as well as several key members of the shogunate, to show how Cryer deserved fat stacks of cash for giving them a way to subvert Golden Chrysanthemums by taking their Cardamine away.

Caprio cursed his role in this, but knew that any sort of rebellion on his part, or dash for freedom, would result in nothing fruitful. He prayed for a miracle, knowing that one probably wouldn’t come.

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