Are you Free? Philosophical Dialogues, Hunter, Bain and Shi XIn

Dialogues | Are We Free if We Don’t Know We’re Oppressed?

Bain and Shi Xin continue wait for Hunter, facing out to the slow-sinking evening, light from the twin stars slithering back into the horizon. They sit amongst the rocky formations in the cave entrance, at the head of the slope down to the vast cavern behind. The noisy off-world traders gathered on the slope have lapsed into slumber, exhausted by …

Waiting for Hunter, Bain and Shi XIn

Dialogues | Waiting for Hunter

Bain and Shi Xin wait for Hunter to emerge from the dark night. They’ve been at the rendezvous for several hours and begin to wonder if he intends to meet them at all. Bain is standing up, shaking his human arm, trying to loosen the boredom from his veins. Shi Xin remains still, an oasis in the whirl of Bain’s …