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But what she felt was like what she had heard others describe. A true xenophobia—and apparently she was not alone in it.
You will become something other than you were.”
“intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn’t matter. A cancer growing in someone’s body will go on growing in spite of denial. And a complex combination of genes that work together to make you intelligent as well as hierarchical will still handicap you whether you acknowledge it or not.”
“We’re an endangered species—almost extinct. If we’re going to survive, we need protection.”
An increasing number of bored, caged humans could not help finding destructive things to do.
Eventually, they’ll take us to be taught to live on Earth. They have a . . . an area of the ship that they’ve made over into a fragment of Earth. They’ve grown a small tropical forest there—like the forest we’ll be sent to on Earth. We’ll be trained there.” “You’ve seen this place?” “I spent a year there.”
Oddly, she also admired them for being able to resist conditioning. Were they strong, then? Or simply unable to adapt?
Lilith found herself standing with aliens, facing hostile, dangerous humans.
