Tyla whirled to face the attack from this new direction. “You can’t use that term. There is no human settlement here, and no government to define laws. There’s no such thing as murder, so we can’t commit it. We can only kill something.”
“We’ve talked about the rules of space courtesy—”
“Have the stoneys ever agreed to those rules? Would they come flocking to help you if you were in trouble? Did they help me when I was lying there with a broken leg?”
“You’d just tried to kill one,” Sora pointed out.
Luuj sounded hurt. “We’ve discussed ethics before,” she said. “If you order me to violate mine, you will have to find someone else to assume the captaincy.”
“This has nothing to do with running the ship, or helping other spacers in trouble, or anything else.” Tyla turned to her brother. “Yo
