[...It does sound alien, and this is coming from the half-elf ex-slave. That, somehow, isn't what he expects from nobility.]

[...except, perhaps, for the utter disregard for how those beneath them might feel about their lots in life. That sounds all too familiar, and Yuan is beginning to wonder if they were in such different positions after all.]

Then you never had any choice in the matter?

[His voice is dry and remote, as though he's trying not to show sympathy. He doubts that Kratos would want anything resembling pity, after all. Certainly Yuan wouldn't.]

[And it's downright peculiar, to see Kratos looking -- visibly -- unsure.]

Did you -- any of you -- never want something else?