You can tell you’ve found a really interesting question when nobody wants you to answer it. - James S. A. Corey

The several unexamined assumptions in the argument remained unexamined.

She felt like her soul was a handful of dice that were still rolling, and what came up would decide the shape that the rest of her life took.

Djuna had stopped letting him watch the local newsfeeds at breakfast on the weekends. Too many stories about bodies being found in unfortunate conditions. Too many missing people, too many espionage claims, too many reminders from the still-official security apparatus that Pinkwater was an unaffiliated corporate entity with no political litmus tests and only the safety and well-being of the citizens of Ganymede at heart. The sorts of things people said because they weren’t true.