[This is the problem with this place, it's so much easier for people to be cruel. There's always power to be abused anywhere, but adding the class system and legal contracts just makes it worse.]

He could, but he's not done it. As awful as it is for her to be watched, it might be worth bearing rather than fighting him and getting her hurt again.

[Six thousand years of playing the system worked well enough for him, despite all the bad parts of it.]