[ She wonders if it could possibly be the same, if humans or anything else could really know what it means to be stripped of one's entire self identity in a handful of words, a phrase: irreversibly contaminated.
Maybe, she thinks wryly, and maybe it's thinking like this that just proves how far she is from being a Peacekeeper now. A thought that doesn't sit too comfortably, and thus is pushed back in favor of his question. ]
It means being a Peacekeeper. It means being superior. It means living out 120 cycles, and never having to question who you are and where you fit in the pattern of things, because you know and you're told. All this constant self-doubt humans seem prone to, there's no room for that.
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Maybe, she thinks wryly, and maybe it's thinking like this that just proves how far she is from being a Peacekeeper now. A thought that doesn't sit too comfortably, and thus is pushed back in favor of his question. ]
It means being a Peacekeeper. It means being superior. It means living out 120 cycles, and never having to question who you are and where you fit in the pattern of things, because you know and you're told. All this constant self-doubt humans seem prone to, there's no room for that.