
“We call it liberty.”

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So they’d have no choice but to contain everyone.” “That’s the curse of it, isn’t it?” he said quietly. “Free will’s the loophole. The same free will that makes saints makes monsters. The same power that lets us choose Love lets them choose ruin. We call it liberty. They call it destiny.
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