Chapter Seventeen
"You do realize she suggested it in order to get us to return to the Earth?" Hsing regarded his brother as he pinch the bridge between his brow.
"She is warring within herself," Chen said. "She is afraid to stay because she thinks we have taken her choices, her freedom, away."
"She needs her choices taken away. Until she can state them clearly."
"She is also afraid to leave because she feels something for us. She is bound to us, and that scares her most of all. She is afraid of rejection."
"You are making as little sense as she does, Chen-Na. She cannot have it both ways. And neither can you. You cannot let her go and keep her at the same time."
"Regardless," said Chen. "Her solution is sound. The life forms she describes may be the only way we can save the Mothersh
