Just read through a goodly number of your drabbles and ended with this- they're all exquisite, but this one leaves me tilting my head a little. It fits with an uber-martial culture, I just hadn't imagined Kyoshi Island- or Suki- being quite that 'death before dishonor, including marring of the flesh'. Thinking of your cousin as a walking body... brrr. But taking into account Kyoshi Warrior culture as presented in the drabble...
Makes me think a little bit of in the later Vorkosigan saga books, where it's mentioned that it'll really be the old Vor matrons who decide how quickly Galactic-technology uterine replicators will be accepted on their planet, whether they'll embrace the new tech or resent the new generation having it when they had to do it the hard way. The situation has changed, and now the way you've lived your life and sacrificed your everything-that-wasn't-focused-on-that-way are irrelevant.
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Date: 2011-02-14 03:06 am (UTC)Makes me think a little bit of in the later Vorkosigan saga books, where it's mentioned that it'll really be the old Vor matrons who decide how quickly Galactic-technology uterine replicators will be accepted on their planet, whether they'll embrace the new tech or resent the new generation having it when they had to do it the hard way. The situation has changed, and now the way you've lived your life and sacrificed your everything-that-wasn't-focused-on-that-way are irrelevant.