‘Tell me, what does tabaca mean? I been called it twice now.’ ‘It’s an off-and-on racial slur,’ Alexia said. ‘It means, literally, “he who sleeps in blood”.’ ‘Sounds kinda badass,’ Jay said. ‘That’s what quite a number of Rathians think. It was supposed to be an insult, but a lot of them adopted it for their own, calling themselves and each other it.’
