We should be grateful, do you think? To you?” The skeleton
spat. “It was _our_ machinery that tore everything apart? _We_ caused the droughts and the floods and put our own homes underwater? And afterward, when we came here across a whole ocean—if we did not starve first or cook in the sun or die with our bodies stuffed with worms and things that _your_ drugs have made unkillable — when we ended here we are supposed to be _grateful_ that you let us sleep on this little patch of mud, we are supposed to _thank_ you because so far it is cheaper to drug us than mow us down?

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