“There must be consequences,” he said. “Evil must be punished or it will continue undeterred until it consumes all that is good.” The queen wasn’t convinced. “You do this as a holy mission to fight evil?” Tau let his eyes roam the room, wondering what to say and how much of his truth to give her. “Abasi Odili murdered my father just to make a point,” he said. “He did it with ease, because the life he was ending was not, to him, equally human. The Nobles think that we’re born feeling less, loving less, worth less, but they’re wrong, and I’m going to show them that.”
