Mm... you don't consider your scandals to have been you exerting some sense of freedom? I'm sorry, I may have misunderstood.
[but that, spoken so plainly, Olivine cannot misinterpret. The words could have come straight from his own mouth in that moment and it wouldn't have been amiss. He himself hasn't put much thought into this place as a whole, but it certainly doesn't seem too inconvenient.
Not when he's not alone, anyway.]
... we're not so different, in that. In truth, it's easy to call something a choice, but when there is no alternative... [just to give him something to do, Olivine reaches for the trays, gently adjusting them on the table. It does occur to him that it's honestly... a lot of food... for just two people.] But there is always a chance at freedom... I think. No matter how unlikely or distant.
[He hopes.]
... apologies. I didn't mean to make things... heavy.
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[but that, spoken so plainly, Olivine cannot misinterpret. The words could have come straight from his own mouth in that moment and it wouldn't have been amiss. He himself hasn't put much thought into this place as a whole, but it certainly doesn't seem too inconvenient.
Not when he's not alone, anyway.]
... we're not so different, in that. In truth, it's easy to call something a choice, but when there is no alternative... [just to give him something to do, Olivine reaches for the trays, gently adjusting them on the table. It does occur to him that it's honestly... a lot of food... for just two people.] But there is always a chance at freedom... I think. No matter how unlikely or distant.
[He hopes.]
... apologies. I didn't mean to make things... heavy.