Tropic of Creation (2011)
“The privacy of the chutes was worth paying for today. Although it was her right to purchase a Data Guide’s services, Nefer’s ire called for discretion.
Nefer had always paid, and now Maret saw the folly of handouts. By her patronage Nefer controlled Maret. Cutting off funds for training purposes, she forced Maret to access the few credits her first kin net had reserved for her.
Maret tried to remember how it was that she had become so dependent on Nefer. The Most Prime Nefer had sought her out ...when Maret was still a child. According to Nefer, Maret’s gene scans showed a promising scholar, and Nefer had need of a scholar-servant, finding meaning in the richness of the Well. Maret dispatched her role as Data Illuminator with scrupulous confidentiality—unlike the powerful Data Guides whose discretion Nefer did not trust. In her more cynical frame of mind, Maret thought it served Nefer’s interests to use her as an intermediary. For those tracing data draws could not tell whether Maretaccessed information for her own scholarly pursuits—which were many—or for Nefer’s secretive administrative and political needs.MoreLess
Nefer had always paid, and now Maret saw the folly of handouts. By her patronage Nefer controlled Maret. Cutting off funds for training purposes, she forced Maret to access the few credits her first kin net had reserved for her.
Maret tried to remember how it was that she had become so dependent on Nefer. The Most Prime Nefer had sought her out ...when Maret was still a child. According to Nefer, Maret’s gene scans showed a promising scholar, and Nefer had need of a scholar-servant, finding meaning in the richness of the Well. Maret dispatched her role as Data Illuminator with scrupulous confidentiality—unlike the powerful Data Guides whose discretion Nefer did not trust. In her more cynical frame of mind, Maret thought it served Nefer’s interests to use her as an intermediary. For those tracing data draws could not tell whether Maretaccessed information for her own scholarly pursuits—which were many—or for Nefer’s secretive administrative and political needs.MoreLess
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