“I’m sorry for what you suffered, but telling the world what you were before there were more of you and the world more willing to accept your talent as a gift, not a threat, would have been a grave error. Your parents, innocent as they were, put you in imminent danger by telling their neighbors about their extraordinary child. Think about it. Other countries would have tried to kidnap you. The fundies would have seen you as the spawn of Satan and business conglomerates would have tried to turn your skills into money making vehicles to pad their own wealth. They would have made you a virtual slave. Taking you away from them was the only thing the government could do to keep you safe and your genes in the gene pool. What they did to you once they had you was horrendous, but I think you can see why they had to take you.” Sam put Mark back into Juraens’ arms and went to pour them both another Asta.