enne📚 quoted North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher
On Nakharat, every contract is a ribbon and every ribbon is a secret, braided tight …
I’d spent all of my life fulfilling others’ expectations, being the student and the friend who always came when called. I’d wanted to know who I was when I was by myself.
I got it wrong, of course. Everyone does, when they’re in their twenties. But I got it more wrong than most: that’s why I’m a starship.
— North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher (77%)