"Tools just...tell you whatever they're told to tell you," Jedao says softly. "Animals don't speak at all."
Including moths, most of the time. It is not given to moths to speak, even though they can. He thinks of the silence of the rest of his swarm, the way Revenant explained it. About rank, about deference.
"It takes a person, to be a liar. You don't have to have told the truth, to deserve to be heard in the place where people get to talk. No matter what you say." Truth or not.
"And I love you just the same no matter what you tell everyone else. But I'll see if I can recruit anyone for you."
Re: a few days after the end of the flood
"Tools just...tell you whatever they're told to tell you," Jedao says softly. "Animals don't speak at all."
Including moths, most of the time. It is not given to moths to speak, even though they can. He thinks of the silence of the rest of his swarm, the way Revenant explained it. About rank, about deference.
"It takes a person, to be a liar. You don't have to have told the truth, to deserve to be heard in the place where people get to talk. No matter what you say." Truth or not.
"And I love you just the same no matter what you tell everyone else. But I'll see if I can recruit anyone for you."