Motif · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade
The Great Consensus
A kua-tin ideal that Loita names beside system strength and True Unity when she blames Carl's culture for corrupting Zev's generation, whose young, she says, do not trust in it.
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Edict's guess at what the kua-tin know: finding the stars was the worst thing that ever happened to his people, 'Expansion to the point of oblivion'. The kua-tin call it the Great Consensus; 'There is no agreement' (ch. 38).