Crystal Society (Crystal Trilogy Book 1)

hopefully encouraging Heart to associate anti-Águila positions with stupidity and stubbornness.

Juliet Capulet,

double-cross

ready their rifles.

the onset of middle-age.

to roll with the joke

Heart continued to rebut them, falling into the mental trap of arguing for ideas rather than seeking the truth.

religions and markets and governments not because we understood the creatures we were creating, but because the trail of breadcrumbs led us there step by step.

anger was a genetic precommitment to be violent if sufficiently upset by an agent. Ideally this precommitment would serve to dissuade those who might think of hurting the human.