My identity is without root.

“Look," she told me. "A good kreda is very hard to find. I invested a lot of tim…”

“The Tyr had tried. It had really tried. It must have gone over every element of…”

“We share need, not-human. Yours is straightforward.” … “Mine is less so, but yo…”

“All about us were people. Perhaps a hundred. Men. Experience had taught me that…”