Because many of them haven't been here longer than sixteen months, when the first new arrivals came to this world. I was from the previous set, when she brought us from the last world she did this on, after it ended. They speak in conjecture about stories they've heard, but I'm the one who tells the stories. They've never even heard her voice.

[ mitchell being the biggest exception, he had two or three years on her. but she rarely gives him the credit he's due. ]

You, for instance, have been here all of five minutes. Are you already such an expert on this world that you can say definitively that we're being taken advantage of, or do you merely assume we are because something about the situation sounds less than ideal to you?