It was an option. I'm not convinced it was the best one, but maybe there's information I'm missing, and I should take back my comments about everyone keeping us all well-informed.

[He gives a wry little smile at this. It's true, after all, that he still has mostly no idea what happened outside the first couple of circles during everything that went down, but he doesn't blame the people out there for not speaking up over the network, since his impression is they were trying not to die.]

As for how we stayed, I don't know. I haven't seen an explanation for that. Viveca could probably shed some light on it better than I can.