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A PERSON COULD, of course, get angry, but claiming unfair treatment was an Earth response, and not a very mature one at that. It was something gamra delegates did not do. Life was not fair—get over it.
But that didn’t mean I wasn’t angry.
Amarru had said that my coming would be a low-key event. Of course I knew that a number of gamra entities watched my actions like birds of prey, knowing that if Nations of Earth decided to become a full member, if gamra accepted the candidature, I would carry a large vote based on population numbers. That I would be someone whose vote might sway matters. But that eventuality needed to hurdle so many ifs that it hadn’t happened in the past twenty years, and I didn’t see it happening within my lifetime. So why guards? Why twelve staff? Why this apartme
