“You’d think you didn’t want to serve humanity. You don’t want people to take you for a betrayer, do you?” Idris noted that the word was given a particular spin and he suppressed a shudder. The “pro-humanity” Nativists had a strong foothold on Magda and they talked a great deal about betrayal. By the Parthenon, by aliens, by Intermediaries somehow in league with Architects. Anything to explain why humans didn’t run the universe.
