breqintopieces: (Troubled)
Breq of the Gerentate ([personal profile] breqintopieces) wrote in [community profile] riverviewlogs 2018-05-23 12:38 am (UTC)

Pagan? Not according to themselves.

[Breq is skeptical, and though it doesn't entirely show through in her expression, something about the flat way she says it carries her hesitation through.]

Magic... I can't say I know what you mean by that. Nor do I know of an equivalent. Some similar things, but not like that. [Family ties were too integral a part of society in the Radch for the military or any other entity to get away with that, and the non-citizens they stole would never be dragged away from their people without a proper re-education. Or without becoming an ancillary body.

But then there's the magic he mentions. She has a suspicion that he's not talking about it in the way of superstitions.

In the meantime, he's caught her out on her evasion. She nods, elaborates.]


I am what the Radch made me, but I'm not Radchaai. More plainly, to your point: humans are very good at finding something and someone to blame for the bad in the world. I don't like it, but it would be foolish not to know it will happen time and again.

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