“I take no offense, Divine,” I replied. The head priest frequently spoke to me as though I were a person. “And you are correct.”
“Divine,” said Lieutenant Awn, worry clear in her voice. “If the soldiers of Justice of Ente Seven Issa—or anyone else—have been abusing citizens…”
“No, no!” protested the head priest, her voice bitter. “Radchaai are so very careful about how citizens are treated!”
Lieutenant Awn’s face heated, her distress and anger plain to me. I couldn’t read her mind, but I could read every twitch of her every muscle, so her emotions were as transparent to me as glass.
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