Translation State

by Ann Leckie

“Do you really feel like you belong with the Siblings of Hikipu? Or did they tolerate the ways you didn’t belong because you fit some story they wanted to tell about themselves?”

“When you have decided what you want, remember that what one will not acknowledge is what one cannot properly control.”

The teacher—there was only one, he understood, despite there very clearly being two bodies, both of which were apparently the same person—withdrew