[ Speaking about his time at St. Quincy's isn't exactly like pulling teeth, but it does get difficult at times. ]
I was nineteen and there was a point that I had a feeling that things weren't going as planned. It wasn't the paranoia that they were out to get me, but I was on the high-pole fight course at school, against some guy who was determined to become number one - not Nico.
[ It didn't occur to him until later what happened next saved him. ]
I know I didn't misstep, but as I reached the pole nearest to him, my staff caught on a misplaced winch and the momentum of it swung be back onto a different pole as the one I was supposed to step on collapsed.
[ A pause as he lifts his cigarette to take a drag. ]
His friends had sabotaged it, along with the rest of the nearby poles. If I'd made that step, I would have fallen and probably died. Winches hadn't been included in the programming for the course at all that day.
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[ Speaking about his time at St. Quincy's isn't exactly like pulling teeth, but it does get difficult at times. ]
I was nineteen and there was a point that I had a feeling that things weren't going as planned. It wasn't the paranoia that they were out to get me, but I was on the high-pole fight course at school, against some guy who was determined to become number one - not Nico.
[ It didn't occur to him until later what happened next saved him. ]
I know I didn't misstep, but as I reached the pole nearest to him, my staff caught on a misplaced winch and the momentum of it swung be back onto a different pole as the one I was supposed to step on collapsed.
[ A pause as he lifts his cigarette to take a drag. ]
His friends had sabotaged it, along with the rest of the nearby poles. If I'd made that step, I would have fallen and probably died. Winches hadn't been included in the programming for the course at all that day.