As he ate cross-legged on his unmade bed, he recalled a conversation that he’d had with Mira in the early days of Birnam Wood. They’d been debating the ethics of wealth redistribution, and Mira had told him about an old custom in her father’s family, where, if ever there was a piece of cake or a biscuit to be shared between two children, the rule was that one child would get to cut it, and the other child would get to choose.
