Babel

by R.F. Kuang

If we push in the right spots – if we create losses where the Empire can’t stand to suffer them – then we’ve moved things to the breaking point. Then the future becomes fluid, and change is possible. History isn’t a premade tapestry that we’ve got to suffer, a closed world with no exit. We can form it. Make it. We just have to choose to make it.’

Robin found it was actually quite easy to put up with any degree of social unrest, as long as one got used to looking away.