He nodded quickly and stirred. "I just--" He hesitated again. "Homunculi can't possibly be sentient."
"The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words." --Ursula K. Le Guin
"But I can't be sentient. It's against the law for sentient beings to participate in unpaid labor, and that's all homunculi are used for. So we must not be sentient."
"The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words." --Ursula K. Le Guin
Kivvien chuckled. "A lot of things are against the law, including you being made to begin with, and yet here you are. I have pointed out many times that you should be paid for your labor, yet you argued."
"Because I'm just a homunculus. What would I need money for?"
"The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words." --Ursula K. Le Guin
"The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words." --Ursula K. Le Guin
"Well, just about anything, really. Better accommodations, services you'd like performed for your own benefit. You can barter just about anything you'd like for your labor."
"The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words." --Ursula K. Le Guin
"The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words." --Ursula K. Le Guin
"Because I'm a homunculus. We're not sentient beings!"
"The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words." --Ursula K. Le Guin
Kivvien sighed. "You very clearly are. Homunculi are rare, hardly a thing is known about their variety and possibility. Maybe you are the first to be sentient, but you are."
Edna began to feel like one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul. — Kate Chopin, The Awakening
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