[Duty and purpose.  That gets an eyeroll.  Terrible platitudes, and for what?  To keep people captive.]

Sounds like a more gilded prison, in truth.

[Bias aside, the thinking that the Summoned have answers to questions?  That's fascinating.]

The world is always ending, in one way or the other.  But thinking that there's some innate solution just by existing is...not new, but I haven't heard it articulated in that precise and blunt a way.  [The little nod of appreciation is there.  It is a good way of thinking of it.]  Does anyone in Thorne seem to have an answer?