Logorrhea is a remarkably good short story anthology, besides The Cambist and Lord Iron, Crossing the Seven is of literary and conceptual interest:
“Our laws here are simple and just. You will only swear to do no harm while you stay within Sucusa, and you are free here as long as you wish.”
That sounded simple enough. But I had seen too much already. “What do you define as harm, that I should avoid, Majesty?”
The queen laughed. “Well spoken, messenger. The obvious sorts of things.”
“I will swear willingly not to lift my hand against anyone in your city. But beyond that… if I were to tell the children of your city the strange truths about Fagutal and Oppius, would that be harm? What if I described the hard choice I made when the scholar fell down the mountain? Is that harm? Is it harm to seek the bed of a woman, or a man here? At what age or time of life may they give consent, and is that consent sufficient in the eyes of your law?”
Logorrhea is a remarkably good short story anthology, besides The Cambist and Lord Iron, Crossing the Seven is of literary and conceptual interest: