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I SLEPT BADLY. I kept thinking about Evi and Telaris and their family, still at Indrahui. Their world didn’t qualify for full gamra membership because their regimes systematically excluded several groups of people, and because there was no overarching organisation that had the power to bring warlords to court. Also, pahemin, life debt, the system of indenture in which time was exchanged against money. It put poor people at the beck and call of rich ones. It was akin to slavery.
It was hot in the room and I was thinking that Evi and Telaris had the best deal, sleeping on the veranda. Taking adaptation medication always made me feel feverish and jittery, my stomach was still not one hundred percent, the standard of the bed was not great, and the thought of Henri compromising our safety
