You will be. But not at the expense of being Mira-coloured. That's what Iris means, you know: an old Terran word for the colours in refracted white light. S'probably why I picked it.
[Iris narrows her eyes as Mira tells her story, and she doesn't rage at the sickening cruelty of it - at least, not aloud.]
There's prisons like that, on some worlds. You whirl from one party to the next, and never remember what you've forgotten. Dead 'ard to break out of. Dead 'ard to remember you even want to, or why.
...I've 'ad a lot longer building meself. When I first come out into the world, I was shyer. I got a taste of it again, that flood. Watching people, not being part of it. Just so it's not the only choice left you. I won't 'ave that for you.
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You will be. But not at the expense of being Mira-coloured. That's what Iris means, you know: an old Terran word for the colours in refracted white light. S'probably why I picked it.
[Iris narrows her eyes as Mira tells her story, and she doesn't rage at the sickening cruelty of it - at least, not aloud.]
There's prisons like that, on some worlds. You whirl from one party to the next, and never remember what you've forgotten. Dead 'ard to break out of. Dead 'ard to remember you even want to, or why.
...I've 'ad a lot longer building meself. When I first come out into the world, I was shyer. I got a taste of it again, that flood. Watching people, not being part of it. Just so it's not the only choice left you. I won't 'ave that for you.