Translation State

by Ann Leckie

Haha

Zone Autarch,

“No one’s ever claimed to be the heir to the Sovereign Autarchs?”

Can you imagine if the Hikipi managed to produce a Schan?

the one we gave the Radchaai Translators Office at the time—

At the time, there were people being smuggled out of the system, mostly Hikipi fugitives who couldn’t get legitimate transportation.

with Zeosen System.

There’s a significant community of Hikipi there.”

You’ll want to ask about official entrance records, which in Zeosen are extensive, or maybe even try one or two of the Hikipi social clubs and ask about family histories—

Have they been declared a terrorist organization? Is it a crime to give them aid and comfort?

Why? Question

Stay at your lodging, at our expense of course.

Rurusk Station,

Zeosen

The Siblings o...

Haha

vaguely thrilling.

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some were far more interesting—narratives of feuds, fights, and murders.

the goddex of good fortune,

Haha

Haha - like a member of A.A.

Haha at A.A. we come to enjoy the stale cookies and terrible church basement coffee.

Haha - a race of assholes. Endearing.

language lessons.

those songs of slaughtering and dismembering enemies had their parallel in stories and histories.

the presence of an eminent Hikipi poet and singer.

the conclave.

militant Chirra causes elsewhere,

Be wary of getting involved with causes.

authorities had a way of finding problems where there weren’t any, when it suited them.

Haha

a sensation of being wrapped in something brown and pink and warm, and whatever it was, he was melting into it, his skin dissolving as he watched.

covered in sweat,

stringy and v...

what did some weirdly sticky sweat matter?

Time happened, which is always difficult to talk about in human language.

Haha - can live the time intervals, but counting them is meaning,essentially.

reveling in the details,

the tiny ways each body was both different and the same,

and that had become delicious in i...

Creepy

this very moment looking at some poor fool of a new Edge and wanting to match.

Ewww chilling

Shelves set into the walls held various human things—

Haha chilling

Haha gardening is dirty boring work.

Ewww creepy

I wanted it. I didn’t want to stop,

I didn’t want this.

Zeosen