[Caleb's eyes brighten in the dimly-lit room. The warm smile that accompanies it did the reassuring that words would inevitably stop short of.]
It's a little unsettling, I suppose. Most rites of passage are. [And that was what it was. Something that almost everyone who comes into the Deck, one way or another, will go through sooner or later. In their case, sooner was always encouraged. Attaining and maintaining a respectable rank was written into their lives the moment they were born.]
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It's a little unsettling, I suppose. Most rites of passage are. [And that was what it was. Something that almost everyone who comes into the Deck, one way or another, will go through sooner or later. In their case, sooner was always encouraged. Attaining and maintaining a respectable rank was written into their lives the moment they were born.]