A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 13
There were enough mrr'tani on board that they'd be able to use the same strategy they had with the ferret, and few enough humans that strong soul felt confident that she could keep the mrr'tani on board from doing anything rash.
A Servant's Heart, Chapter 3
"back before any of us could remember, the mrr'tani lived on a single planet, mss'delai. it's said that it was a perfect society. there was no war, no hunger, no poverty. we were all our own person, but every mrr'tani lived to assist the whole.
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 5
Right now, though, it's better for the good masters to own mrr'tani, or at least lease them." "how could that be better?" strong soul asked. "with the demand for mrr'tani labor as high as it is, there's a use for our kind.
A Servant's Heart, Chapter 20
She recruited more and more of the mrr'tani on the ship into her plan and the ones that weren't working on setting it up, she sent to the mrr'tani in the forward sections, warning them of what was coming.
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 15
If the alliance was going to leave her mrr'tani to men like him, then she had not other options but to ensure that they were safe. after all, they were her mrr'tani.
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 2
Most of the furniture and opulent fixtures had been removed and long ago sold for salvage aboard a mrr'tani cargo ship and now it was just as spartan as the rest of the fleet.
A Servant's Heart, Chapter 18
Yes, for servant mrr'tani. you are freewalkers. you think we don't know how you live when you come? apartments of your own! sandwine brought to you at your beck and call! other mrr'tani to do your bidding, as if you were another human."
A Servant's Heart, Chapter 12
"i am morning dawn, by the will of the free mrr'tani administrator of rawss'a'mrr'sarr, and i recognize the mrr'tanah before me. i name her keeper of hearts, a frr'a'tan'lassi'ah of the mrr'tani."
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 14
Where almost every mrr'tani would have said something was missing deep inside, they would never have been able to tell anyone what that something was. only the very old mrr'tani would have known that it was the connection.
A Servant's Heart, Chapter 5
Free mrr'tani were definitely not unheard of in the allied planets, and they had to make their living somehow, but many humans believed that the mrr'tani were suited for nothing more than working on the human estates.
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 26
The connections with all the mrr'tani, they let me feel joy when i need it and they let me spread the sorrow when it is too much for only me to take. my strength lies in the strength of the mrr'tani, not merely myself."
A Warrior's Heart, Chapter 27
Strangely enough, the mrr'tani minds, linked as they were directly to the ai's, provided a faster and broader way for them to communicate. it wasn't just the mrr'tani who functioned better through the links, it was the ships they rode in as well.