Mickey7 (Mickey7, #1)

by Edward Ashton

Humans are tribal, and the refugees’ accents were enough to mark them as outsiders, even setting aside the fact that the majority of them had skin a few shades darker than most of Midgard’s original population.

and brought up chunks of tissue, she held my hand and cradled my head against her belly and talked me through it. It was awful, what she did then, and it was beautiful, and if I live another thousand years I will never stop being grateful for it.