You know I wouldn't mind if you didn't word it gently. The fact that so many kids have been brought into this is just...

[It's so fucked up and he doesn't even know how to describe it better than that right now. Rather than being crass in front of the Commandant, he instead latches onto the return of their previous conversation. About what was going on back in Terca Lumireis.]

Yes. We had just passed back through the Weasand of Cados from Mantaic. It was almost time for me to deliver that letter from Whitehorse to Palestralle's leader, Belius.

[...]

We passed through a barricade on the way. Was that your idea?