"Girl. I threw a chair at the stage of a play I hated." She kept her attention on Kawauso. "If there are layers of rules, it's even more gratifying to break them. It's up to people like us, as you say, to speak up for those who can't." Her smile brightened.Akodo Kawauso wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 5:18 am"That is helpful," Kawauso says. Then, in a quieter voice, she adds: "I didn't use to worry so much about it. But here... All the clans, all these rules... I wouldn't want to stay here, but if I go and there's no one to speak for my people back home..." Again she looks at the taller woman. "Maybe rules on top of rules forever."
"And with what we've seen today. I think there's bigger fish to fry than how to act in public."