"I see you have chosen the boring path."
"Grand Duke Blossom-the-Flowers never holds court on what is, by his own reckoning, even-numbered days; nor days divisible by 3. He won't change that for any momentary mess. This time tomorrow, whatever that means to you, go to the furthest edge of the Facility where it borders on the merely dramatic; that's where the Farm put the parents-and-kids section of the Facility."