What if Captain Smythe did not reject his orders? What if Captain Smythe was not there at all? What if instead of soldiers they
Chang believed that learning was dangerous and best suited for private contemplation, not something to put in the service of the highest bidder- as the Institute did, in thrall to the patronage of men...
This was how people were able to do things when they didn't want to - they made themselves feel something else, like anger, more than the fear.
She was already fierce. She required none of this nonsense, and if she’d carried a man’s strength and her father’s horsewhip these villains would as one be on their knees.
I didn't understand her being gone, either. I had seen her fall. Now her part of any conversation would always be unsaid, and the direction she would have gone walking would always be empty. Her absen...