<I’m always content. I am what I am, no matter how I got that way.> <But still not free.> <Males and females both, we still have to lose our lives in order to pass on our genes.> <Poor fool. Do you think that I, the Hive Queen, am free? Do you think that human parents, once they bear young, are ever truly free again? If life to you means independence, a completely unfettered freedom to do as you like, then none of the sentient creatures is alive. None of us is ever fully free.> <Put down roots, my friend, and then tell me how unfree you were when you were yet unrooted.>
