(If it's a show of power, and I suspect that it is, it reveals how much control they have over life itself. Their leader may speak well, but it's proof that they have developed a means of controlling their resources.)
[In a way, it's not unlike Mount Weather. They had everything, and they constructed a society over their so-called neutrality while limiting that resource to outside people. Perhaps she's projecting, but she thinks that's unlikely. More information will be necessary, but she will likely be carrying this theory for some time.]
(It shows that anyone but the Seconds are a commodity. Ready to be used once they pass.) [It explains why servants are not meant to speak. They are nothing.]
no subject
[In a way, it's not unlike Mount Weather. They had everything, and they constructed a society over their so-called neutrality while limiting that resource to outside people. Perhaps she's projecting, but she thinks that's unlikely. More information will be necessary, but she will likely be carrying this theory for some time.]
( It shows that anyone but the Seconds are a commodity. Ready to be used once they pass. ) [It explains why servants are not meant to speak. They are nothing.]