Because she's spent forty years with these children, Gyre. They may have looked like children when he saw them, but their age is anything but that. She lets him be mad, watching him.

"They want this to end, they're tired of being used like pawns in some big game." She starts walking again, a slow pace around the circle as she repeats something she'd said before.

"And they are pawns. Pieces. Because someone decided it was easier to control something in smaller pieces than it is to control it as a whole."