Izramith walked back from the house seething in anger. What was the point of hiring people and then undermining them in every way possible? Or giving them only half the information required to do their job? Daya would have known about the boy, but he was a Hedron person through and through. Like others on Hedron, he didn’t care about family in the same way other people did. Family didn’t matter on Hedron. Little else mattered either, except the company, being polite to each other, and worker’s rights. People were all selfish and horrible. Emotion was bad. Too much emotion and you were considered unhinged. Everyone shut their doors at night. The way these people sat around the table and actually talked to each other would never happen at her house. It made her feel cranky and lonely. Ser

