“You have to be careful in the city,” she says. “They have laws against sodomy.” “If they do, they don’t enforce them,” Fetter says. “I see a lot of people together—“ “That’s not how laws work, son,” she says. “A visible law is a ploy, a little play. A mummery in waiting, waiting for you to become interesting. Never give them a reason to care who you are.”

— The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera (Page 65)