“To be singled out as special is one matter,” Jahir said. “To be called out as, essentially, a freak in comparison to ‘normal’ people….” “I did no such thing,” the Seersa said. “I told people the truth: that you’re a special case because you’ve been trained to lie with your body.” That was so shocking an accusation that he could not move, nor draw breath to defend himself. “That’s what it is,” the Seersa said in response to his silence. “You feel something and you hide it from us all.” “That is the barest courtesy due to others,” Jahir said. “To keep from discomfiting them with histrionics.”
