Deathwatch also have blackshields who fit the archetype closer having removed their chapter (or legion) heraldry either out of shame for their own actions or shame for the chapter's.

Does this mean being against child benefits as they similarly exclude both the child free and infertile? Or do you see taxation as importantly different?

How is the state meant to distinguish between the infertile and the child free for the purposes of taxation?

Such a great book, hoping to learn a bit more about the Juniper Hall stuff from a biography of Madame de Staël I found. Couldn't get over Fanny Burney's letter to her father dispelling rumours of Staël's partiality to Narbonne; in a sort of weird Austen crossover.

Did you find the ending very emotional? It had me crying on the bus, but I wasn't able to articulate very well why when telling people about it. Poor old Montrond.