"Yeah, kinda, except the only way out was one of those terminals, you remember the lock?" He waved his hand that had the bracelets covering that damned barcode. "Only way out. Before I did that, the Chancellor showed up."

He frowned and gave his head a shake. "He gave me back my gun and he had my bracelets, so it was...you could see it." He hadn't even really shown it to Noct, just said it was there. It was so ugly, and wrong, and he'd always hated it.

"Because when I scanned it to get out, it put all the MTs in the facility on alert. I'm...compromised. Set for elimination." His language merely reflected that empire coldness, that reflection that they didn't see him as a person.