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Laurel didn't want to face a reality where her babies didn't need her. It seemed unfair that they would leave her, like her parents had left her, when she was trying so hard not to leave them! The thought that Marten inserted that they would leave her be inserted a bit of malfunction in Laurel's brains, one that left her infuriated because the only way she could deal with the emotional pain was anger.

Are you saying you think they chose to leave? she said, her voice clearly on edge. Marten would likely recognise that it was one of those tones that meant she could explode if she received the wrong answer.