“All right,” he said with peevish haste. “I see, I believe you—what can I do but believe you. Here I am, here you are. . . . But I don’t understand. I don’t understand what you did all this for.” At that my temper broke, and I must stare at the ice-knife which lay close by my hand, not looking at him and not replying until I had controlled my anger.
Fuck these two! They’re on the same side, they both want Gethen to join the Ekumen— why do they continue to misunderstand each other???
