It was not by choice that they had come to settle there.
[For now, he is willing to leave aside the further explanation of why the Garleans had come to live where they do. He might know it as well as any other - and with good reason, considering he'd spent nigh on half a century there himself - but it is less than immediately relevant to the current conversation.]
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[For now, he is willing to leave aside the further explanation of why the Garleans had come to live where they do. He might know it as well as any other - and with good reason, considering he'd spent nigh on half a century there himself - but it is less than immediately relevant to the current conversation.]
Though I will not deny their resilience.