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| 26 | 56 | I do not View more quotes about know">know that my own decision would have been so harsh, but I admit that Lara knew her city and its silver masks better than I. |
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| 26 | 53 | They knelt before her—once proud silver masks, now terrified and helpless captives—on the same sparkling sand that had so often been stained with the blood of the men of Tharna. |
| 26 | 54 | Lara had thought long on these matters and had discussed them with many, including myself. |
| 26 | 55 | In the end her decision was her own. |
| 26 | 56 | I do not know that my own decision would have been so harsh, but I admit that Lara knew her city and its silver masks better than I. |
| 26 | 57 | I recognized that it was not possible to restore the old order of Tharna, nor was it desirable. |
| 26 | 58 | Too I recognized that there was no longer any adequate provision—given the destruction of Tharna's institutions—for the indefinite shelter of large numbers of free women within her walls. |
| 26 | 59 | The family, for example, had not existed in Tharna for generations, having been replaced by the division of the sexes and the segregated public nurseries. |