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This passage takes place after Selver tells the Athsheans gathered in Cadast about the massacre at Smith, about the Athsheans’ enslavement, and about what happened to his wife, Thele. Coro Mena asks Selver if the humans are men like the Athsheans, and Selver responds that he doesn’t know, because the humans kill one another. Coro Mena then explains that the humans will fundamentally alter the planet.
This passage lays out one of the central problems of the novella: the Athsheans must respond to the humans’ violence with violence, despite the fact that they’ve been a nonviolent society up until this…