A-Ah, it was, um. Well, one day, we woke up and the whole town had changed. Everything - the scenery, clothes, houses, everything. It was deplorable. Everyone was forced into factory jobs, or ridiculous tasks, and incredibly long school days. I-I was supposed to... do some sort job i-involving food production output that was impossible, a-and after a few days they took me a-and dragged me off for, ah, "reprogramming". Which pretty much involved getting tortured. Um. Some people were killed when turned in a-as spies. Other people were dismembered o-or tortured for not completing their jobs too. I-it went on for a week or so until it stopped a-as suddenly as it started. This was l-last year, now. I-I had the scars from the incident on me until the n-next time I had died, a few months later.

[He absently rubs his chest, where the worst wound was.]