This is a fairly good place in a lot of ways, honestly. Sure, the whole weapons ban is going overboard--I mean, I was for gun control back home, but there's a difference between reasonable gun control and outlawing weapons completely--and I don't love how much travel places seems to rely on going on foot but otherwise? They've got free health care for everyone here and culturally, the natives of this region don't have any problem with same-sex attraction. Honestly, I kind of want to stay here.

[It probably helps that he doesn't really have anything left for him back home, except for maybe his ad hoc motley of fellow escapees from El Pecador. But as much as he liked them, they were also daily reminders of what he'd done for his Keeper.]