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

Emperors are vain and useless things.

Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice.

She wasn't here to gawk. She was an infiltrator, a sneak, an ugly. And she had a mission.

It's just the way things are." she shrugged. "It's no one's fault." "Or everyone's.

I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled.

You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.