[That's close to the number of years he and Barbara would have been married if things had been different. Weird, how the idea of Brotherhood soldiers having long and stable marriages just didn't enter his mind. Even though the little squires obviously come from somewhere. It's just easier for him to think of them as a security problem that needs solving if he doesn't think about them as people. It's a shitty thing to do, and he's a shitty person for doing it, but it's the only way the Railroad stays alive.]
Jesus, was the Brotherhood even in the Capitol then?
[O'Hallan snorts.]
We'd been in the Capitol for ten years by then. We arrived in '55.
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[That's close to the number of years he and Barbara would have been married if things had been different. Weird, how the idea of Brotherhood soldiers having long and stable marriages just didn't enter his mind. Even though the little squires obviously come from somewhere. It's just easier for him to think of them as a security problem that needs solving if he doesn't think about them as people. It's a shitty thing to do, and he's a shitty person for doing it, but it's the only way the Railroad stays alive.]
Jesus, was the Brotherhood even in the Capitol then?
[O'Hallan snorts.]
We'd been in the Capitol for ten years by then. We arrived in '55.