Like, on Thyker, those High Baidee make a law that says no killing, ignoring the times when killing is the only merciful thing to do, but then they m… - Sheri S. Tepper

Well, strangeness was hard to think about. Wonder grazes you like a bullet; it zips by and is gone, and all you really perceive is the zing as it goes past, or maybe the pain if it comes too close. It does no good to search for whatever it was, for it never lodges anywhere you can get a good look at it. The truly strange has no hooks of familiarity that one can catch hold of.

We Enforcers have a saying: 'the right help helps, and enough help helps, but help that's in time helps most.'

Prey, property, or opponent, gasped Mouche, who was now in the door they had entered through, breathing the cleaner air of the sneakway. Madame said that's how gangs think."
Questioner nodded. "One like this was a gang unto herself. So long as we think of such people as humans and attempt to treat them as humans, we cannot protect the innocent.