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PLEASE DON'T KILL BARRON, HE IS LYING!

He doesn't have his powers back, he didn't force anyone to surrender any cakes at dinner time, please don't kill him just because...

[Pause]

[Filtered away from Barron]

Just because he's kind of an idiot.

[Another pause, then, in an exasperated outburst that may have been coming for some time:]

...God, what's wrong with him? Why is he so strange? How could he possibly think that this is a good, sneaky plan? Why would he do this, Comrades? I used to be an inmate, I never did anything this ridiculous!

[Pause as he considers that.]

I never did anything this ridiculous that was going to get myself hurt.

[...Actually...]

Or, when I did, I did it for ideological reasons rather than because I thought it was a good idea!

[SIIIIIIGH]