All around us the cases of books lining the walls watched us and listened. Would they approve? Their good opinion was something to be desired, comprising as they did so much knowledge and so much time.
"On the other hand," I mumbled through a bite of Zora's rich shortbread; Cesca brushed crumbs from her lap, "I ought to investigate. I've always wanted to do this. I've always felt quite strongly about right and law and justice. I ought to investigate." I poured more tea for Cesca tipping the pot puffing quietly on the hook over the fire.
All around us the cases of books lining the walls watched us and listened. Would they approve? Their good opinion was something to be desired, comprising as they did so much knowledge and so much time.
"I don't think it's possible for me to abstain from poking about and discovering the injustices and setting them before the officials. I know several who would take my evidence and use it. These practices go on, these injustices, because there is no evidence. But I know how to get it and I will. Women locked up, children beaten and forced to labor, inheritances stolen, bodies employed as test tubes, people sold into slavery and silence. It can't be let go on. I can stop it. I will."
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