“First,” he says, “Neera is not my master. She is my equal.” “Truly? You are male, are you not?” “Uh,” Dalton says. “Yes?” “And this Neera—she is female?” Oh. He sees where this is going. “We don’t have the same social structure that you do,” he says. “The fact that Neera is female and I am male is irrelevant.” “Hmm … so you say.”
