Damn. Zel really could pull off the philosopher speech when she wanted to. How could someone as violent as her think like that? If Zel taught a course, Mia would have loved to have taken one of her classes, just to listen to her talk about life and stuff.

"True value?" Mia said. "It's not like that on the surface. Lots of people up there have the best intentions and see nothing for it but pain. Life isn't fair up there."

"Correct. On the surface, it is different. Your intentions and desires, your will, they draw in resonance, but they do little to shape the world around you on the...