Her mind was shaped like a star fort: beliefs angled so nothing hit them directly, every approach for an argument covered by multiple lines of cold fire. She was too young — younger than the young discipline I excelled at — for this to be deliberate. Even so she was a disquieting marvel – somebody immune to a fearsome industry’s full arsenal. What else, I wondered, could come from that?
The Siege
The Siege
The Siege
Her mind was shaped like a star fort: beliefs angled so nothing hit them directly, every approach for an argument covered by multiple lines of cold fire. She was too young — younger than the young discipline I excelled at — for this to be deliberate. Even so she was a disquieting marvel – somebody immune to a fearsome industry’s full arsenal. What else, I wondered, could come from that?