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Now, Topaz' eyes regarded him as if that were all they saw. A starving kid. A charity case. The resilient, unfortunate survivor of some forgotten people doomed to be buried among the endless, desolate sands of the Sigonian wasteland.
She drew a sharp breath in. Guilt and something awfully close to pity bled into her eyes like ink into water, and around him, the world faded into nothing but the sound of her voice—hesitant, but unmistakable—as she finally looked Aventurine right in the eyes and said,
"I'm here because… because he's Katican, Aventurine. And our only option is to have him tried for the crime of genocide."
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In which 17 years later, a bothersome rebellion and a set of legal technicalities leads the IPC to try a singular Katican for his involvement in the genocide of the Avgin people, and Aventurine of Strategems is called in to witness.