B shrugs a bit. "That was my life before I came here. I guess I never got quite as mad about it, when it felt like too much freedom." He considers a moment, then offers, "Being here means that you're not forced to do whatever the people in your world wanted out of you, though. And when you graduate, you don't even have to go back there unless you want to."
He waves a dismissive hand. "I've no place left there, nay, plans are laid." In the event that he does leave the way the admiral wants him to. "But there be a price I wouldst be loath to pay, had I any choice in the matter. As I do not? It rankles."
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