Kindle Notes & Highlights
You, on the other hand, produce no excess. Only enough to keep yourself alive. Which is why you’re sterile—oh, you didn’t know that? I’m sorry. Was it inappropriate to tell you?”
“What amazes me is that not only can you absorb the life of other creatures—there are precedents for that, I can think of at least
two other embodied species that have to do it in order to reproduce—you might fall into that category yourself, you realize—but that you can use the excess, as we do. To alter your personal mass, with that as a fuel.
“They lied,” I whispered. Wanting her to understand. “They told us we couldn’t get to the stars without them. And we believed it! We were so wound up in ourselves that we would rather accept defeat than question
the basic tenets of our science. No wonder they kept us isolated from their other conquered species! They were afraid that someone would tell us the truth....”
you call it a ‘madness season.’ The period when the Raayat are most unstable.
