The trouble with the long game is that if we wait too long, the people my age will be in charge, and they'll have never known anything but the Protectorate and they'll struggle to imagine change even more than we currently do.

Interesting. I hadn't thought of the lock that way, but I imagine you're right. Ridley probably relies on her legilimency to trust people, but that wouldn't work on you.

You also slept with my father. Moral lines, indeed. I don't at all condemn it in theory, or even in practice, except in those cases when it involves people I'm related to.

I apologise for calling you a whore. I know why you must have done it. What bothers me is that I'll never understand why he did. Not with you, specifically, but in general.