Source: The Hercules Text (1986), Chapter 12 (p. 194)
“I suspect there was a power struggle in the Embassy, that some would have tried, out of habit, without rationale, to wall up information. They didn’t win.”
Source: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 10 (p. 172)
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