"I sell myself for food and anything else." Jack isn't ashamed but the treatment he retrieves sometimes is not the best. "Sex is one of the few things worth much because it's illegal to enjoy it."

"I'd kill him too from the sounds of it."

Jack sighs and takes a drink. "I don't know. I don't remember anything before five years ago. I escaped vaporization; having my mind erased and rewritten into a better citizen. They weren't totally done when I got free. I remade myself through a lot of bad experiences. Survived a plague. Started a gang and we're a sanctuary for people trying to escape the same treatment."

Jack reaches down and strokes the dog. "Diamond was there when I woke up in the streets after... escaping the Ministry. I take care of a couple kids that parents brought. The Party kills babies born with defects or kids that get injured too badly. I look after my girl too since they erased her personality and broke her mind. She can't make memories any more, I don't think."

It was more than Jack's eye that made him sympathetic to the three children he kept but his own physical oddities did play into it a lot. "The Ministry says I'm like a punk Peter Pan with murderous lost boys."