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Tom Holt (KJ Parker) seems to always write about displacement, racism/xenophobia, gentrification, and colonization. But I continue to enjoy reading him complain. I've exclusively listened to his books on audio with the exception of this and orc on the wild side tho and omg it's so slow going. I might give up and do the audiobook for this one too honestly.

"I imagine you're feeling a certain degree of satisfaction, after six hundred years of planning and hard work.
Not really, Orsea replied. All I wanted to do was go home.
The man smiled. Well, of course you did, he said. That's all any of us want; but it's the hardest thing there is, that's why we had to work so hard and be so cunning and resourceful."