No one asks for permission from things. They just use them.
Things have no conscience. They have no soul. So why bother to ask them for permission? Just use them.
And in Seraphim, there were things, and there were slaves. And they both meant the same.
Slaves were equal to things.
They had a soul and a conscience but they were still things.
And the slaves themselves believed that. They were so used to being treated as things that they had forgotten their own heart.
But when Pablo asked them for their permission to become their master, their heart throbbed again.
They remembered they had a soul as well.
And they remembered that because of Pablo so it was only natural for them to accept Pablo as their master. If not him then no one.
However…
'So choosing the right word worked fine. Glad I asked for their 'permission.'' Pablo knew it all along.