They did not so much as ask. They made no indication that this would be - that they were capable of -
[It's fine! It's fine. They're accustomed, are they not? They have never had any choice in the matter of their life. Their arrival, their continued existence. They don't get to pretend they've ever had a right to choose. The only thing concrete in that was the choice in their method of departure - the one thing in their life they could control.]
[And even that, in the end, was not truly theirs to command.]
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[It's fine! It's fine. They're accustomed, are they not? They have never had any choice in the matter of their life. Their arrival, their continued existence. They don't get to pretend they've ever had a right to choose. The only thing concrete in that was the choice in their method of departure - the one thing in their life they could control.]
[And even that, in the end, was not truly theirs to command.]