Chapter 17
Sophie closed her office door behind me. “I’m getting tired of these visits, Llona.”
I dropped into my usual chair. “Me too.”
“Don’t get smart with me,” she snapped.
“Is being smart a crime too?”
Her shoulders sagged as she lowered herself into a chair. “I don’t know what to do with you,” she said more to herself than me.
“Can you tell me what I did wrong? I honestly thought I was being helpful.”
“It wasn’t necessarily wrong, it’s just that you’re taking away from others.”
“You mean Lizens?”
“Of course. Serving us is their identity. It makes them feel important in the world. Before us, their race had almost become extinct. We saved them.”
“So in return, they are in our servitude?”
“We didn’t ask them to do this; they chose it.”
“They may have decades ago, but has any
