Jantzen's diary, 6/23/12
The Professors say that to protect you must love, and to love you must understand. I can't protect. I can save, defend, slaughter those who try to harm the humans. But I cannot protect, can never be prepared for what they might ask of me as of so many. The life expectancy for our people outside the Univeristy is less than eight years. Lily will probably die before the humans would let her taste alcohol. She's my weakness, of course. The Professors always said so. They said to treat her as an asset, as a soldier. I'm not strong enough to do that. Or perhaps I am too strong. Someday there will be a choice...
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