I'd like to know how they managed any of this. We weren't even separated from the rest, so how'd nobody else get dragged with us?

[and why would it just be them? there have to be better choices.

gregor hauls himself up off the floor and onto a seat with a stifled groan, his back protesting at being crouched down there for too long.]

Not that I'm saying I'd want them to be in the same situation, but it makes even less sense than anything else we do.