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Arriving at the Ring was a political fiction, but that didn’t keep it from being real.
The man was an idiot.
The forces that had brought their ancestors out to the Belt had roots in trade, commerce, and the overwhelming promise of freedom. The OPA had begun its life more like a labor union than a nation. The difference was subtle but powerful, and it showed in strange ways.
This is what we call the kill box.”
Never be rude unintentionally, her father had always said.
“Just trying to think of a way we could be doing this worse,” he said.
It was a lesson he’d never forgotten. That humans only have so much emotional energy. No matter how intense the situation, or how powerful the feelings, it was impossible to maintain a heightened emotional state forever. Eventually you’d just get tired and want it to end.
Heroism is a label most people get for doing shit they’d never do if they were really thinking about it.”
Hating herself had a kind of purity that she found appealing.
Distant thunder in a land that had never known rain.
Captain Michio Pa, her face still bandaged from the fighting, spoke in glowing terms about Carlos Baca and Samantha Rosenberg and a dozen other names and commended their ashes to the void.
His words were full of hope and threat. Like the stars.
