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Does a populace have infornite a war, doing this to justify the existence of the minority&039;s forces? History already has answered that question Every society in the ConSentiency today reflects the historical judgment that failure to provide full information for informed consent on such an issue represents an ultimate crime

- fro down at Gate Eighteen, McKie and his escort arrived back at Jedrik&039;s headquarters building He led theuarded side entrance with its express elevator, not wanting to pass Pcharky at this moment Pcharky was an unnecessary distraction He left the escort in the hallith instructions to get food and rest, signaled for the elevator The elevator door was opened by a small Human female of about fifteen years who nodded him into the di on this planet well masked, nevertheless kept her under observation as he accepted the invitation She was a gaarment cut off at the knees Her very existence as a Dosadi survivor said she&039;d undoubtedly sold her body many times for scraps of food He realized how much Dosadi had influenced hihtest feeling of censure at this knowledge You did what the conditions around you de It was an ultimate question: this or death? And certainly some of them chose death

"Jedrik," he said

She worked her controls and he found himself presently in an unfauards stood at a doorway down the hall, however They betrayed not the slightest interest in hih

It was a tiny anteroom, empty, but another door directly in front of him He opened this with er space full of projection-rooraphic focus on his left McKie identified Jedrik by her profile, slipped into a seat beside her

She kept her attention on the h-focus where a projection of Broey stood looking out at sonized the subtle slippage of computer simulation That was not a flesh-and-blood Broey in the focus

Someone on the far side of the roolooh one of the projection beams

McKie whispered to Jedrik, "Why sis I didn&039;t anticipate"

The suicide missions McKie looked at the simulation, wondered why there was no sync-sound Ahhh, yes They were lip-reading, and it was silent to reduce distractions, to a the simulation model of Broey which she carried in her head She would also carry another ive her a certain lead time on the reactions of one Jorj X McKie

"Would you really have done it?" he asked

"Why do you distract me with such nonsense?"

He considered Yes, it was a good question He already knew the answer She would have done it: traded bodies with him and escaped outside the God Wall as McKie She ht still do it, unless he could anticipate the mechanics of the transfer

By now, she knew about the sixty-hour linificance Less than sixty hours And the Dosadi could make extremely complex projections from limited data Witness this Broey si to a fat Hunized as a communicator for field use

Jedrik spoke across the room to Gar

"She still with hie, and it condensed an entire conversation about possible uses of that woman McKie did not ask addicted to what There were too many such substances on Dosadi, each with peculiar characteristics, often involving odd monopolies hich everyone seeap in Aritch&039;s briefings: the monopolies and their uses

As McKie absorbed the action in the focus, the reasons behind this session beca to believe the report from Havvy

And there was Havvy in the focus

Jedrik favored McKie with one flickering glance as Havvy-simulation appeared Certainly She factored McKie into her computations

McKie compressed his lips She knew Havvy would contaminate me They couldn&039;t say "I love you" on this damned planet Oh, no They had to create a special Dosadi production nuinated before the breakup," McKie said "It&039;s useless Rather than ask the computer to play pretty pictures for us, why don&039;t we examine our own memories? Surely, somewhere in the combined experiences with Broey"

A chuckle somewhere to the left stopped him

Too late, McKie saw that every seat in the room had an ar precisely what he&039;d suggested, but in a ures at the focus were being adjusted to the combined memories There was such a keyed arht hand He suddenly realized how tactless and lecturing he still must appear to these people They didn&039;t waste energy on unnecessary words Anyone who did must be subnormal, poorly trained oror not from Dosadi