human
You Americans, beings of another world, have come here at the bidding of the Heads to slay and kill for gold.
gpt
I who for three years studied your country, learned its language, history, did not believe men of your race could be so vile.
human
It is true that we came here to fight for gold, but who are you to speak of vileness? Have you not turned on the Heads, your benefactors, now your brothers, who raised you to their height? Are you not leading a revolt of the workers which would deny them the means of sustaining life? Are you not seeking to perpetrate--murder?
gpt
Is it possible you are in ignorance of what those means are? Listen, then, while I tell you the hideous truth. Since the dawn of our history, until the present moment, the Heads have maintained their lives by draining blood from the veins of thousands of Apexans yearly!
human
What do you mean?
gpt
I mean that the artificial blood pumped by mechanical hearts through the brains of the Heads--yes, and that is now being pumped through my own! cried Spiro bitterly--
human
Even I, went on Spiro,
gpt
In the face of such knowledge what were immortality and power? Could they compensate for one hour of life and love as humanity lived it? So I brooded. Then one day in the temple I looked into the face of a girl about to be bled and recognized Ah-eeda. In that moment, hatred of the fiends posing as gods and draining the vitality of deluded worshippers, crystallized and drove me to action. So it was I who denounced the Heads, aroused the people! Spiro's voice broke; died. Miles and Ward stared at him, horrified; and after a while Miles exclaimed,
human
We never suspected! We would never have fought to maintain such a thing had we known!