Natalie Grey

“Now, I’m not sure how familiar you are with basic morality, but it is considered very, very immoral to stand by while a sociopath abducts families, tortures them, and forces them to kill one another.” “But—” one of the men spluttered. “It was just a job!” another one insisted. “Wrong answer.” Tabitha shook her head at them, and then considered. “Of course, there wasn’t actually a right one.”
― Natalie Grey, Trials and Tribulations

“subsistence living was often the norm. One learned to expect lean times and to jump at work when it was offered, and so people were especially vulnerable to those who, pretending to be reasonable, preyed upon the natural instinct to provide for one’s family. And those people, she had told him, were brutal. They controlled through unpredictable violence and fear, and left one choice: obey and be richly rewarded, or disobey and be killed painfully. No matter how much they might, on some level, realize that they could be in the line of fire at any time, people kept their heads down out of instinct. They told themselves that everyone did whatever they needed to do to survive. They told themselves that they and their families had to be their first priority. Even”
― Natalie Grey, Challenges