In the Hall of the Martian King (2009)
“We met just casually, before either of us was anybody, and then we were friends, and then we stayed friends while we worked together as colleagues, then I took on that assignment you keep harping about (which I was ever so glad to have failed at), and then there was our long period of a close relationship. In all that time, he never brought up any of our past. We were what we were to each other, right then. From that first mission to the Harmless Zone when <NOT INCLUDED IN THIS MESSAGE DUE TO REASONS OF NATIONAL SECURITY> right up until the moment those <NOT INCLUDED IN THIS MESSAGE DUE TO REASONS OF NATIONAL SECURITY> and I lost my best and oldest friend, Jak Jinnaka always just accepted that your relationship was what it was right then, whether he was your tove, your pizo, your target—or your lover.
“Of course I know which of those relationships you want me to talk about, masen? There’s only two really interesting subjects, sex and violence … which should I start with?
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