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A moment of trouble saves a month of tears.”
“But mostly because fuck them, that’s why.”
“Toss me your jacket, Danach,” Ingray insisted. Hoped frantically that this would be one of those occasional moments when Danach behaved like a brother and not a competitor.
Though she could smile and look as though nothing troubled her for hours on end, she had never been good at the instant, witty reply.
This person seemed disconcertingly uncategorizable, not a man or a woman or a neman.
he doesn’t like not being important. He’s expected all his life that he would be important.”
In theory she was fully qualified to do this, to go out into the suffocating nothing of space.
When humans first appeared, many things died. So much died, and the humans were bad to eat. Many wished to remove them, but some said, no, they are very strange and things die all around them, but they are like people in some way. And they have come here to live, how could they live outside the world? Nothing could. Imagine being outside the world, it is a terrible thing. Do we kill these strange, so very strange maybe-people for that? When we might instead help them live? And so we changed them, and now things do not die all around them, and they can live in the world.”
A hatchling that thinks only of its own survival makes an untrustworthy adult, and if every hatchling behaved so, far too few would survive.
“It’s not a good idea to let your enemies know that they can just take some hostages and get whatever they want from you.”
Ingray didn’t know where that had come from, the words had just appeared in her mind and come right out of her mouth.
“She knows what she wants. If that’s not what you want, well, that’s how it is to have children.
But maybe she wanted Danach to remember that she could have been. If she’d wanted it.
