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Hyori said with the kind of innocent confidence that could only come from a life lived in the mists of nationalism.
We can’t claim to be crime-fighters if we disrespect life just as much as the criminals we fight.”
“To me, a ‘clean fight’ is one that leaves the world cleaner than it was, not bloodier.”
Everyone in this part of town has been oppressed or abandoned by theonite powers the rest of the world depends on, but they don’t give up. Instead, they’ve made a life and a culture here for themselves. It’s not perfect, but it’s worth protecting, even if the ruling theonites and the politicians and the police have all decided otherwise.”
It seemed that not everyone in the world considered a strong bloodline to be a good trade for their autonomy.
“They were brought here as slaves to farm all that land the Yammankalu stole from the Natives, but when they were emancipated, they weren’t given any property of their own. Some of the Native Baxarians can at least compete with the Kelenduguka physically, but the adyns don’t even have that. It’s easy to judge when you inherit property, and an important name, and amazing powers from your parents.” Robin’s voice had grown heated. “How easy do you think it is to build a life out of nothing?”
No matter how cold the nights get here, the sun is rising somewhere. Somewhere, it’s making someone warm.”
listening never made any man dumber, but it’s made a lot of people smarter.”
People always said the Ranganese were demons of a different breed from the Kaigenese, but their blood seemed to be the same color, now that they lay still, letting it run together. They had all come out of the same ocean, hadn’t they? At the beginning of the world?
It had never properly occurred to her before that moment, but perhaps the thing she found most attractive in men had never been power. It had never been danger. It was bravery.
