[Ah. Then she hadn't been as careful and subtle as she'd hoped over the matter of private space - he'd read between the lines. Well, if he can do that, she can speak honestly to him.]
That sense of falling is freedom, though, and at the risk of being appallingly trite, once you get your bearings you won't have to fall, you can fly too. I mean - didn't you ever have a contracted partner, back home? You must have had heirs. It's different for Tradeliners. I won't have any of that. [She says it lightly, but there's a flicker of something sad in her eyes.]
I think culture clash is inevitable, not just over that but everything else as well. If you and I are to be friends, though, we can be honest with one another. If either of us does something the other finds culturally... troubling, we can talk about it, instead of making assumptions or getting offended. Fair contract?
[Whether or not he agrees, she turns back to something he said earlier.] I never went to school either, but schools did exist on Cardalek. [It's not that she couldn't afford an education, of course. Ari, Carrington project that she was, had some of the best individual tutors the Company could source.] It's... [she prevents herself from saying anything too rude] exceptionally irritating that there aren't useful books here. I'd share mine with you, but I only have the one computer, and I don't know if you'd want histories of my sector or technical manuals or writings on liberty from the slow ship colonies anyway.
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That sense of falling is freedom, though, and at the risk of being appallingly trite, once you get your bearings you won't have to fall, you can fly too. I mean - didn't you ever have a contracted partner, back home? You must have had heirs. It's different for Tradeliners. I won't have any of that. [She says it lightly, but there's a flicker of something sad in her eyes.]
I think culture clash is inevitable, not just over that but everything else as well. If you and I are to be friends, though, we can be honest with one another. If either of us does something the other finds culturally... troubling, we can talk about it, instead of making assumptions or getting offended. Fair contract?
[Whether or not he agrees, she turns back to something he said earlier.] I never went to school either, but schools did exist on Cardalek. [It's not that she couldn't afford an education, of course. Ari, Carrington project that she was, had some of the best individual tutors the Company could source.] It's... [she prevents herself from saying anything too rude] exceptionally irritating that there aren't useful books here. I'd share mine with you, but I only have the one computer, and I don't know if you'd want histories of my sector or technical manuals or writings on liberty from the slow ship colonies anyway.