“You must’ve had a reason. You always choose your words carefully.” “Do I.” “Yes, you do. And Dejauzi isn’t even your language.” “It is now,” I said. “And the Hus are now my people. I don’t think you can have a nation of one, it’s a grammatical impossibility.” “That would matter to you. The grammar.” “Yes,” I said. “Nation is a collective noun.” I was using the Echmen words, of course, but she understood them. “So if I belong to a nation, it’s got to be plural, not singular. Therefore I may have been born Robur, but now I’m Hus.” “I don’t think so. People aren’t words, you can’t just translate
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