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This passage is a conversation between Selver and Mr. Lepennon, three years after Davidson’s final attack on the Athsheans. Earth’s spaceship returns to the planet to evacuate the colonists, and Lepennon asks Selver whether the Athsheans have begun to kill each other.
Earlier in the novella, Lyubov tried to convince Selver to stop killing, as he worried that continuing to kill would alter Athshean society. This passage proves that Lyubov’s fears were correct. Violence in the novella has only generated more violence—and while the Athsheans were a nonviolent species prior to the humans’ colonization, the humans’ violence influenced Athshean society…