“Next, the water-planet, third from the medium star,” gurgles the attendant. “Your judgment, Arbitrix?”<\/p>\n
But before she opens her mouths, the Arbitrix is caught in a quantum lasso: her consciousness snatched, bound and stuffed into a tiny biped body. She’s born wailing. She learns human language and human love, the colors of sweat and sunlight. She swims and bleeds, sings, grows taller; she discovers the Secret Order of Cognitists and their cruel but necessary capture of her mind, one last desperate attempt to save their race. She ages, loses, aches, dies.<\/p>\n
“Arbitrix?” says the attendant, uncertain.<\/p>\n
“Smash it,” she grates.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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