"...People born in this world? Doomed to wear the big wings. And apparently they're the most susceptible to being drawn on to the dark side. If the General said Luceti wasn't yet ripe...?

There've only been, like, three babies here. I thought he was just being lofty when he said we weren't ready. Like, we were stunted in the psycho-philosophy department but I think they must wait for an enclosure to do lots of procreating and child-rearing before they start handing out the enlistment forms."

A deep breath.

Oh, she was so upping her contraception tea dose.