Go sit with the males.  Don’t interrupt when females are speaking.  Politics aren’t for you.  Keep your opinions to yourself.  Chuktik had heard these things his whole life, and he attributed them to his deciding early on to be an Enforcer, but as he matured, he’d learned better.  The thoughts and plans of males simply didn’t matter.  Not only to his mother, but any female.  It was a learned behavior; Claktiss had never exhibited such parochial concepts with him.  He knew the day was coming though; her contact with females like Tahn’di was bound to only hasten its arrival.

“Stay with the ha’la’ai in the stable if you worry so much,” Tahn’di told him.  It was the first time she’d spoken directly...

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