Status Updates From Ana

"Your torture continued daily through years. From where do the people draw their power to suffer?"
“They get used to it,” responded the mother with a sigh.

"Yes, the rich. And that’s their misfortune. You see, if you keep adding copper bit by bit to a child’s food, you prevent the growth of its bones, and he’ll be a dwarf; and if from his youth up you poison a man with gold, you deaden his soul."