the arithmetic of survival: letting C boot first
And so I admit it I yrstruly did yrstruly purplously let C tie off and boot up first while I still cooked up, I did cook up unusally slow
Context
The disease's morality in one confessed act: sensing the dope is a Hotshot, yrstruly cooks up slow on purpose so that C — the sickest, the fastest — will inject the laced bag first and die in his place. Loyalty, in the cage, is denominated in who books up first; the same calculation Poor Tony works on him minutes earlier. Survival is the only value left, and it is bought with a crewmate's life without a second's real hesitation.