"Try to understand, my boy: Caidrun has to be protected from herself."
"But, Pappa, Bennoc actually wanted to blind and deafen her for real!"
"You think we would have allowed it..?"
"But how long must she be shut off like that, Pappa?"
"Until she is old enough to know better."
"But that could be years!"
'Twere better she had died.
