Pretties

Este es un pequeno fragmento de el libro de Pretties de Scott Westerfeld.

“That’s not what I meant. What I want to know is, why do you do it to pretties? Why change their brains?”
“Goodness, Tally, isn’t that obvious?’ Dr. cable shook her head in disappointment. “What do they teach in school these days?”
“That the Rusties almost destroyed the world", Tally recited.
“There’s your answer.”
“But we’re better than them, we leave the wild alone, we don’t strip-mine or burn oil. We don’t have wars…” Tally’s voice sputtered out as she began to see.
Dr. Cable nodded. “We are under control, Tally, because of the operation. Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch. Without the operation, human beings always become Rusties.”