"There's always a choice. Even if the second option is worse."

It's a fond reminder, at least. Things were slightly easier to take care of. They could handle them and move on, once they figured out what to do. Found ways to prevent it from going wrong like the one time. If only it was so relatively simple as that again.

"They don't. But they're going to be confused, and afraid probably. Angry, eventually."

It all feels so clinical, at the moment.