You’d best ask the lady boffin, sir,” Newkirk said. “Midshipmen aren’t allowed to have opinions.

Even mocking people helped their face stats. In the reputation economy, the only real way to hurt anyone was to ignore them completely. And it was pretty hard to ignore someone who made your blood boil.

Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.

Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.

your not alone, Tally. Don't pretend you are

Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think.

Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.