XZhu: Well, if they're cooking their books, at least they're competent at it. ... it's Neuman, isn't it?
Travis: Yes ma'am.
Zhu: Projects like these -- projects where the Domain provides methods of bettering life for their citizens, and the Empire helps out with the means -- they are vital to our survival. The Domains deal with their people on a day-to-day basis; the shape they give a solution will be far more useful than some arbitrary decision imposed from outside. We must not fall into the trap of think of the Empire and the Imperial Domains as locked in a struggle for power. Only when we cooperate do we move forward. We've learned that the hard way.
At the same time specific Domain representatives sometimes consider the resources of the Empire best used for improving their specific lives, wthi is rather more pinpoint an effect than we care for. So. These people are not expecting me and they'll be desperate I nee their best side. Unless I'm misreading the personalities, they will regard you as furniture. Don't correct that impression. It will give you a chance to collect unbiasned impressions of the operation, have a casual look around, perhaps speak to some of the staff informally --
Travis: You want me to spy on them.
Zhu: Why, Specialist Neuman. How quickly you catch on. It's as if someone's had this conversation with you before. ... Though your vocabulary wants expanding.
Travis: So I am told.
Travis: Yes ma'am.
Zhu: Projects like these -- projects where the Domain provides methods of bettering life for their citizens, and the Empire helps out with the means -- they are vital to our survival. The Domains deal with their people on a day-to-day basis; the shape they give a solution will be far more useful than some arbitrary decision imposed from outside. We must not fall into the trap of think of the Empire and the Imperial Domains as locked in a struggle for power. Only when we cooperate do we move forward. We've learned that the hard way.
At the same time specific Domain representatives sometimes consider the resources of the Empire best used for improving their specific lives, wthi is rather more pinpoint an effect than we care for. So. These people are not expecting me and they'll be desperate I nee their best side. Unless I'm misreading the personalities, they will regard you as furniture. Don't correct that impression. It will give you a chance to collect unbiasned impressions of the operation, have a casual look around, perhaps speak to some of the staff informally --
Travis: You want me to spy on them.
Zhu: Why, Specialist Neuman. How quickly you catch on. It's as if someone's had this conversation with you before. ... Though your vocabulary wants expanding.
Travis: So I am told.
When last we saw.... Travis
stuff kat likes:
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
The King is dead, but not the war: for honor, for glory, for the relics of the Shattered Plains. Slave and general alike are bound to the war machine. But the king-killer and his long-dead magic will change everything....
The King is dead, but not the war: for honor, for glory, for the relics of the Shattered Plains. Slave and general alike are bound to the war machine. But the king-killer and his long-dead magic will change everything....