[She thinks about the girl who liked to swim, the girl who was her body. One more person who had to die for the gods to keep things spinning.
Not that it had to be her. It just had to be someone reckless enough to die that no one would miss. She would have died in that storm whether they chose her or not.]
Older generations usually die to make room for their children. Species are built to deteriorate so that reshuffled genes can spread in more successful combinations. Humanoids just tend to have a larger time discrepancy than, say, Chiat Dai. It makes it look less direct, in the normal course of things.
[She shrugs.]
The people I killed were academics, mostly. Mathematicians and inventors and visionaries. They might have cheated on their husbands or their taxes but they died because they stumbled on, or close to, something dangerous while trying to make the world better.
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Not that it had to be her. It just had to be someone reckless enough to die that no one would miss. She would have died in that storm whether they chose her or not.]
Older generations usually die to make room for their children. Species are built to deteriorate so that reshuffled genes can spread in more successful combinations. Humanoids just tend to have a larger time discrepancy than, say, Chiat Dai. It makes it look less direct, in the normal course of things.
[She shrugs.]
The people I killed were academics, mostly. Mathematicians and inventors and visionaries. They might have cheated on their husbands or their taxes but they died because they stumbled on, or close to, something dangerous while trying to make the world better.