There's something rueful and sad to Myr's smile, there a second and gone again. "Like so much else we're born to, we haven't got a choice in it. Though I've long wondered why the Maker's gifts always seem to come at such a high cost.

"We're fed and clothed and given a proper education to rival most secular ones--and protected from an outside world that fears us, rightly or wrongly." He pauses to consider, weighing carefully, before continuing in a neutral tone:

"Which came at no small cost of our freedom."

Someone would bring it up, sooner or late. He might as well take on the task.