Status Updates From The Winter Station

This is hard to read in spots because of how familiar some of the behaviors during a plague are after living through the COVID-19 pandemic and current fears about this seasons influenza outbreak

“What was he doing in this role? Standing between two corrupt systems, a negotiator like his father, the diplomat. No escape from family or the past, even here in Manchuria. He’d sworn to avoid situations where he would represent the government, the instrument of empire.” p 117