““He’s a fair man.”I looked at him, startled.“I said fair,” he repeated. “Not likable.”I kept quiet. His father wasn’t the monster he could have been with the power he held over his slaves. He wasn’t a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper.”

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