One of my favorite parts of this story was how unexplained so many things were. The story makes references many times to parts of the given universe's culture or accepted ways of life, and many authors would want to go into detail about the political spectrum to give that perspective, or to describe the concept of birthing a ship or having a person live as a ship or the concept of two people creating one "Mind," as it is called.
No such explanation is given in the story. Most things are easy enough to guess from the context, but I think one of the great things about the story is that it does force the reader to make those guesses. There's lots of room for different people to have different takes.
The one thing I would have liked to see was the meeting between brother and sister/ship after the parents were gone, but since the story was told from the mother's point of view it makes sense to not be able to see that scene.
Yeah I definitely would have liked to see more from the story about the actual relationship between the brother and sister too. I loved the story and I understand it was told from the mother's point of view and should therefore end with her life, but I wish there had been another section told from another character's point of view that detailed their reunion. Just as a sort of epilogue maybe. I think it would have given the story just a little more closure.
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