Venerable Brutus Wodin never expected to mingle with the lesser beings of the galaxy.
He looked down on the third-raters not just because they were inferior, but also because they were ignorant.
It was too difficult for him to get used to the sight of boys issuing orders to women, and women deferring to the weaker gender.
Society outside the sacred Hegemony was upside-down! Either people believed that boys were equal to women, or they thought that boys were actually better!
What a travesty!
Nonetheless, his sister ordered him to smile and make nice with the aboriginals.
Since she had been living among the unenlightened beings for years at Centerpoint and in the Bright Republic, she had long become accustomed to their heretical behavior.
She freely shared her methods with him and gave him some tips to keep his disgust bottled up and out of sight.
