“Including our own knowledge of terraforming, and how to best manage a planet.” And we’ve brought other things.” Including weapons the Gidanta didn’t have. You’ve been cut off from the outside for so long, you didn’t have medical correctives. We came here by accident, and we can’t very well leave. You turned up less than two centuries ago, now most of the hard work is done, and you want to tell us what to do with our planet, and who is or isn’t an authority!” We came here, to this place without an intersystem gate, so that no one would bother us and we could live in peace. For all that time, we have been working on this planet, to make it a place we could live without interference. “We have been here for two thousand years.
“An industrial association is not a government!” Seeing the girl roll her eyes again, Ashiban wondered fleetingly what her words sounded like in Gidantan-if the handheld was making industrial association and government into the same words, the way it obviously had when it had said for the girl, moments ago, translating Sovereign as Sovereign. You wouldn’t talk to the Terraforming Council because you wouldn’t accept they were an authority, and besides, you didn’t like what they were saying.” And it wasn’t about us listening to the voice of the planet. And nobody listens to me.” The voice of the translating handheld was utterly calm and neutral, but the girl’s tone was contemptuous. And if your mother didn’t know that, she was completely stupid. The Sovereign looked back at Ashiban and rolled her eyes. “And how can the Voice of Iss not mean exactly that?” The Sovereign didn’t answer, just kept walking.Īfter a long silence, Ashiban said, “Then why do any of the Gidanta listen to you? And who is it my mother was negotiating with?” “What is that supposed to mean?” The girl snorted. “Translating Sovereign as Sovereign?” asked Ashiban. And it’s you Raksamat whose priests are always trancing out and speaking for your ancestors. It was you Raksamat who insisted on translating Sovereign as Sovereign. “I didn’t know that was possible.” And surely at a time like this, the Sovereign wouldn’t want to drop so much responsibility on a teenager. “Abdicated!” Mortified by her mistake-Ashiban had been warned over and over about the nature of the Sovereign of Iss, that she was not an individual, that referring to her as such would be an offense. “We’re all the voice of the world spirit. “You’re not supposed to talk like we’re all different people,” said the girl.
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