They didn't even let you pick them? Not - not properly?

[She hadn't known that.

[It's even worse than she had been suspecting. Even something as straightforward as expressing a color - even that had been too much to ask for?]

I should have known they'd have seen that one coming, too.

I think you should have given him a piece of your mind anyway. Mayhap, if he were to hear it from somebody else, he couldn't simply write it off as my not being sufficiently optimistic for his tastes, in the midst of mass slaughter at that.