#Things to consider
- Like all of her kind, she is driven to investigate anything new. Like humans, Portia’s people are quick to see patterns, sometimes when there are none.
- Her people have solved the mathematical riddles posed by the orbiting satellite – the Messenger, as they think of it – learning the proofs first by rote and then in true comprehension, as a civic and religious duty.
- You know what’s a good lesson of history? You’re screwed if you can’t pay the army.
- …just because she cannot understand something now does not mean that it cannot be understood.
- She has a gift for seeing problems from unusual angles, and imagining radical possibilities.