“You narrow-minded idiots have mistaken delaying the inevitable for a divinely bestowed right to survive… You… — Ian Tregillis
“You narrow-minded idiots have mistaken delaying the inevitable for a divinely bestowed right to survive…
You aren’t noble survivors of a historical tragedy, you’re a lingering curiosity of a bygone age. The last vestige of a primitive past. Dust to be swept away. The difference between you and I, dear Berenice, is that I recognized the broom for what it was. And got out of the way.”
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It’s not my fault your makers made you humorless.
“Sergeant,” she said as they mounted the stairs leading to her old apartments, “thank you for treating me like a human being. And, for what it’s worth, I am sorry about how this turned out.”
He grunted. “It can’t be undone,” was all he said.
It isn’t courtly politics if somebody doesn’t get a dagger in the back.
