Unscramble Offered Mga Nobela at Kwento

“I will take the offer.” ***

It is offered. By those who grow tired of resistance.

I looked at her for a long moment. There were several things happening in my mind simultaneously. The first was the simple, cold recognition of what this was. Not an offer. An offer implies the recipient has genuine freedom to accept or refuse. This was a transaction being presented as an offer because the framing was more palatable than the alternative framing, which was: we would like to purchase your disappearance and this is the price we are prepared to pay.