Editing Citrine (section)

===Background===
Despite being from a privileged family, she had grown up violent and 'uncivilized'. During her last year in a juvenile detention center, before her transfer to an adult’s prison, she received an offer that she could not afford to refuse.<ref name="II5.x ePrison">“Because, Jean Brown, I understand the desire to rise up and desperately make sense of a world that seems so senseless.  I read every file that can be found about you, and I don’t believe you ever had a chance to be civilized. [...] I know who your stepfather is, I know who your teachers have been.  Your judge remarked on your privileged background, but you were the last file he looked at after an overworked day.  He hadn’t had a vacation in five years and his retirement was imminent.  He was lazy and he didn’t see you.”<br/>[...]<br/>“This will be far more difficult than juvenile prison, and even more difficult than being a newly minted eighteen years old in an adult’s prison, Jean Brown.  You will want to do as I instruct, regardless of this difficulty.”<br/><br/>She wanted to ask why, and her instincts told her that she couldn’t and shouldn’t.<br/><br/>Failure wasn’t an option.<br/><br/>“You get one chance, Ms. Brown.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/04/07/shadow-interlude-5-x/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 5x II]]</ref>

When talking about the type of people who sought out Accord, she implied she was the type that had power and sought more.<ref name="21.4 e3">“Why?” I asked.  “Why leave a successful, ordinary, ''happy'' life behind, and go to that risk?  Why work for Accord, of all people?”<br/><br/>“Power,” Citrine said.  She turned her back to the portal to meet my eyes, her dress flaring slightly with the rotation of her body.<br/><br/>“Power isn’t magical,” I said.  “It creates as many problems as it solves.”<br/><br/>“Power is less a thing unto itself than it is a journey.”<br/><br/>“To ''where''?”<br/><br/>Her eyes were penetrating as she gazed at me.  “Not all journeys have destinations.  Power is the ability to effect ''change'', and people who create change ride that tide, with far-reaching effects.  For some of us, that’s something we’re born into.  Our fathers or mothers instill us with a ''hunger'' for it from a very early point in time.  We’re raised on it, always striving to be the top, in academics, in sports, in our careers.  Then we either run into a dead-end, or we face diminishing returns.”<br/><br/>“Less and less results for the same amount of effort,” Grue said.<br/><br/>“Others of us are born with nothing.  It is hard to get something when you don’t have anything.  You can’t make money until you have money.  The same applies to contacts, to success, to ''status''.  It’s a chasm, and where you start is often very close to where you finish.  The vast majority never even move from where they began.  Of the few that do make it, many are so exhausted by the time they meet some success that they stop there.  And others, a very small few, they make that drive for success, that need to ''climb'' becomes a part of themselves.  They keep climbing, and when someone like Accord recognizes them and offers them another road to climb, they accept without reservation.”<br/><br/>“Which are you?” Grue asked.  “Did you start with power, or did you fight for it?”<br/><br/>Citrine smiled a little, looking over her shoulder at the tower.  “I suspect Tattletale will tell you, if you’re curious enough to ask.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/imago-21-4/ Excerpt] from [[Imago 21.4]]</ref>