Emperors are vain and useless things.

“Now,young lady,I suppose you're here for a work assignment."Work?" Tally said.T…”

“Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming ev…”

“Tally sighed, tipping her feet again to follow. "Maybe that's because they have…”

“Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the ri…”