Amai lets out a little hm of a laugh, the corner of her mouth turned up. "I'm still astonished they manage to get anything done in their government. And now they're wasting resources on this war. I wonder whose decision that was."

But her look turns thoughtful on Byerly. "You say she was raised there. But was she born there? I mean, you didn't have uterine replicator technology here some twenty-odd years ago."