Doubts

“I want to take over Dasina,” replied Venus with the same calmness. She was determined to do that. She really wanted to fulfill her own oath for this one city. Two days into the new inhabitants of Second Earth and they had already sentenced her to death, making her have to taste the Song of Kenya before facing death.

Venus had wondered if there was no law in this dimension forbidding the imposition of the death penalty on minors. However, she suspects that the law could exist, it just doesn't apply to her because she is different.

Different.

After a while Venus was quite fed up with that one word. Something different should not be looked down upon in such a contemptuous manner. Venus thinks that it is people who make her difference as dangerous as it is today. If they didn't immediately label her as a threat that should be removed, if those people at least tried to make Venus learn, not ostracize her as if she were already part of the Voltura organization itself; if only that had happ