"There is no choice but to. They were immediate, and I could not have cast them off for me to have saved them." And it's true. She could have abandoned everyone, not spent all her careful time finding them homes and lives in their isolation, where they would be so, so loved.

Even if it all fell apart. Even if her best laid plans...

"I do wish they did not exist. But if I did not handle them, someone else would have to. And I could not allow that."