"You know, it is. My best friend Magari is a Darscen, and a lot of people hate them." Rene's good mood soured quickly. "Something supposedly happened with them a few thousand years ago, so they get blamed for a lot of bad things. But even if it did happen, there's no one alive now who was responsible for it! And it's still used as an excuse to discriminate against them and...and worse..." She had done her best to shield Magari from seeing the worst of it, but in wartime there was only so much she could do.