Epilogue
Luehmani applies for the colony project.
She doesn’t get in.
They find her tumblr blog. On the one hand, her bugbear is reds-- But she seriously considered killing them all, even if she decided against it. What if her bugbear changes? Can be trusted to follow orders, or will she at some point that now is the time for guns? Deciding against it doesn’t cut it. There are enough people applying that they feel no need to accept wannabe mass murderers.
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Credits get cheaper. She finds a partner. They have three children.
She’s proud of them all. None of them are high fliers, no five star generals or top stick ball players, but they are good greys. She’s proud of them for learning how. She’s proud of herself for teaching them how.
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She teaches them about the Biyani Crisis. Not to scare them, or to traumatise them, she says. So that they are informed. So that they are prepared.
She teaches them why they only have one grandfather. Who’s fault that is. (Who’s fault she thinks it is.) She teaches them that reds are evil. Untrustworthy. Dangerous.
In a cleaned world, she teaches her children to hate.