Prostitution has little to do with morality, and everything to do with poverty. - Lisa Mason

In the beginning and the end, it’s all a crapshoot. The Cosmic Mind does play dice. Loves to gamble, in fact.

The girl with her face. A Devolved Entity Manifested from the Other Now? A demon that wants to off her? It’s like the rumors of concentration camps. So weird she can’t believe it, and so plausible she can’t afford to disbelieve it.

By the time people could speak about mandatory population control in a rational way, it was too late.