"Oh." How many times had she done the same? "That's smart. It was always easier to get away with doing stuff like that if you're keeping your head down." Or maybe she was just that easy to overlook.

"But yea, the guards were generally more likely to look the other way for the well-behaved ones." Or the ones who knew how to fake it in public. Whatever it was, she probably got away with a lot more than was technically allowed.

"I'd be more surprised to find out they're not, to be honest." Stripping a person of pretty much all of their rights and then using them as leverage to convince them to do something was a pretty shitty business model, but it was effective.