It was in the galactic year 3315 that Jean Valjean, formerly PT#24601, was released from his nineteen-year-long captivity in the prison-ship Toulon. The stone-faced prison guard snapped a yellow band around his wrist -- ("temporary identification, until they reenter you into the system") -- and so they set free him from one cage and let him into another.
Four years later, Monsieur Madeleine rubs his thumb against the cuffs of his long sleeved shirt, pretends it's just stiff cloth that's cutting into his wrist, and goes out to greet the inspector newly assigned to the floating city of Montreuil-sur-mer.
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It was in the galactic year 3315 that Jean Valjean, formerly PT#24601, was released from his nineteen-year-long captivity in the prison-ship Toulon. The stone-faced prison guard snapped a yellow band around his wrist -- ("temporary identification, until they reenter you into the system") -- and so they set free him from one cage and let him into another.
Four years later, Monsieur Madeleine rubs his thumb against the cuffs of his long sleeved shirt, pretends it's just stiff cloth that's cutting into his wrist, and goes out to greet the inspector newly assigned to the floating city of Montreuil-sur-mer.