At this point, Sasha gets sucked back into the practical conversation with Seyli, and from there she goes to speak to Ashari and Sulen at the bar. When she returns to Ione's side, she's obviously flushed.
"The thing I keep wondering is, does the heptarchate really have more torture? Or is it just more obvious about it? Or--hells--more effective? I know it was easier to be a foreigner in the heptarchate in my time than it became, later. But where I come from--though they never said they tortured people--they said people had made appropriate recompense for crimes committed. Or that there was a little brushfire war somewhere else. The soldiers had not exhibited ideal control under stress. You know, the way governments always lie."
interplanetary anthropology
At this point, Sasha gets sucked back into the practical conversation with Seyli, and from there she goes to speak to Ashari and Sulen at the bar. When she returns to Ione's side, she's obviously flushed.
"The thing I keep wondering is, does the heptarchate really have more torture? Or is it just more obvious about it? Or--hells--more effective? I know it was easier to be a foreigner in the heptarchate in my time than it became, later. But where I come from--though they never said they tortured people--they said people had made appropriate recompense for crimes committed. Or that there was a little brushfire war somewhere else. The soldiers had not exhibited ideal control under stress. You know, the way governments always lie."