The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)

by Becky Chambers

Reflexes kept a person safe, but they could also make you stupid.

An Akarak was just an Akarak. Yellow could just be yellow. Reflexes could make you stupid.

(but, of course, therein lay the danger; convenience was morality’s most cunning foe).

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She knew the only ones she’d ever come face to face with had been trying to steal her shit, and that those were the only stories anybody ever told about their kind.

pei lets use our critical thinking skills. why would a dislocated people, victims of war, resort to stealing from people with greater access to resources? love u girl but think, pei, think

Stars, she was tired of needing to be the Linking file for her entire species wherever she went.

‘I was operating on the hope that such things wouldn’t matter when the sky is falling apart.’ ‘Such things shouldn’t matter at all, regardless of what the sky is doing.’

On interspecies relations

‘Isn’t it? Sure, we’re talking xenophobia on very different scales, but fear of outsiders is fear of outsiders all the same.’ Speaker disliked that categorisation, but in keeping with her own request, did not take it personally. ‘I’m not sure I’d call it xenophobia in our case. It’s just . . . experience.’ ‘Hmm.’ Roveg considered that. ‘Yes, perhaps I’m not viewing it in the proper context. My peers would argue your situation and ours boil down to the same principle, but then, they’re wrong about most things.’

‘Perish the thought that we stop trade. It’s a relationship of greedy convenience, and everyone knows it.

Remember children, their shells still white.