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“I have to admit,” Roz says, knowing this verges on the offensive, “I don’t understand why people would fight over this desert.” Malakal looks amused. “Is it your experience that people fight over worthwhile things?”
“But with this deal you’re making her more powerful. And it means you’re going to have to keep dealing with her.” “This is what we do. We deal with the dangerous, sociopathic, power-hungry individuals the people elect.”
“Can we state as a given that there is no single objective truth?” Maria asks. Roz nods easily: this is clear. “The problem with feeds, beyond all the obvious problems, I mean, is that they give us the illusion of a perfect truth, incontrovertible evidence, a flat, singular version of history. They are too easy to rely on, to believe in.” She lightens her words with a smile and a half-shrug. “I practice sustaining my disbelief in objective, documentable truth.”
“Watching destruction from rooftops is a time-honored responder tradition,” Laurent says, drinking. “As is drinking,” Roz says, drinking.
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