“There’ll be one condition that Karhide must fulfill before it can join the Ekumen. Argaven must revoke your banishment.” He said nothing, but stood gazing at the fire. “I mean it,” I insisted. “First things first.” “I thank you, Genry,” he said. His voice, when he spoke very softly as now, did have much the timbre of a woman’s voice, husky and unresonant. He looked at me, gently, not smiling. “But I haven’t expected to see my home again for a long time now. I’ve been in exile for twenty years, you know.
I love that Genly is proposing this condition! But Estraven has been in exile for 20 years? What? Howso?
