All That We Are (The Commander book 7)
“– The Buddha Tonya Biggioni: January 9, 1969 – January 10, 1969 Arnold Rennik picked up the last four boxes, smiled at Tonya, and left her office. Tonya made sure she didn’t let the pity inside her slip out, because pity messed up the juice flow worse than anger. Her vigilance served as a constant lesson in humility. Arnold was a living reminder Transform Sickness did not afflict just the intelligent, pleasant, young and good looking. Arnie had an IQ of about 85, was in his late 50s, crot...chety, and between the wens on his face and the asymmetric curls of his round ears, he won awards for ugly. What should a Focus to do with someone like Arnold? Play God and discard an inferior Transform? Feed him to the Arms because he wasn’t up to standards? Properly trained, Arnold was certainly no worse than the average household member. He pulled his own weight by dint of hard work. Without a Focus willing to give him a chance, no one would have ever known. Prejudice is, literally, pre-judging, Tonya repeated to herself for about the millionth time. If the Focuses ever won the right to choose their own Transforms, they would win the right to pre-judge. Would it corrupt them and morally destroy them? Some Focuses thought it would. Tonya campaigned for the right, and was secretly terrified the Focuses would abuse it and truly become evil. As Lori would say, often just to annoy her, if the Arms are the predatory nature of humanity writ large, then Focuses are the Babushka nature of humanity writ large. Drum roll, please!MoreLess
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