“It’s worth everything,” I said aloud in Ralian, and shocked us both by embracing him. He hesitated, which I understood—we’d spent a lifetime with our friendship hidden in public, constrained by Ralia’s rigid sense of gender and class—and then hugged me back, quick and tight.
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