Juni: Look, Tamu, you know better than anyone what Kayohash have to deal with when we come here. Kajoshu is so... backwater that most of us have no useful skills.
Tamu: Yes, it is fortunate for you that you came to the South in time to receive a decent education.
Juni: But even ones who come as children get pigeonholed into being part of the sex trade. It's a vicious cycle. Most are fine with it but I sure as breeze wasn't. And then the ones who are....
Tamu: Seth was quite willing to earn.
Juni: They are selling a service, Tamu, not their bodies.
Juni: You can't simply "commandeer" them for research.
Tamu: Well, you never seemed to object.
Juni: Our relationship has benefited me just as much as you.
I had assumed that Tamu tossed around people of all species around as mere instruments of his investigation... but maybe he's not quite that much of an equal-opportunity manipulator.
He's probably species-blind when it comes to his arrogance. In this case I think it's more that he enjoyed a bit of privatized stimulation, if you know what I mean.
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