“Not daily,” Jade pointed out. “But it’s definitely come up.” Now it was likely to come up a lot more, with Ruby being a brand-new resident to the facility.
She didn’t suspect that Ruby would need strong reminders to keep under the radar, but she was grateful that her sister seemed to understand the system all the same. “Exactly. There are enough big personalities around here to keep the Powers That Be plenty busy. And regardless of what you see…,” and Ruby would see plenty. It didn’t matter that this wasn’t Maine.
All of these facilities, she believed without a doubt, were fundamentally the same. “Just don’t get involved if you can help it, okay?
It was a bleak, bleak thing to have to tell Ruby to do. To ask her to be so fundamentally self-interested so as to turn her back, even if her impulses told her to do otherwise.
She offered a small smile and squeezed Ruby’s hand. “Doing my best.”