Their faces were blank except for the white line of light that passed for eyes, and their heads were framed by a fan of solid metal.
One thing I love about this book is the balance between the rich history and the futuristic elements. People don't abandon their language, their religion, their culture when they develop technologically-- they carry those things with them. That Mirage holds the past and the "future" (or the present, I guess, in the context of the story) in tension makes the world feel more real and complex than many science fiction universes.
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