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A Warm Place (stripped)
this is a stripped-down version of "a warm place"
while to Fields Hell reading, ship attacked (surprised happens; not all-powerful), damage (= aft bruise plates six months failing, SubOrdinator replace) near life structure: farm. tunnel carved asteroid; toroid sidener tube kilometre wide six kilometres across. buried in rock floating space. thousand farm orbit red sun nother planets. farm each. one rock, three farm different air, three intersect, series impellers keep atmosphere. our not fast. side tube lined buried impellers simulate pull twentieth earth gravity. side tube filled damp breathe air; walls covered soil, plantsects. minutes bluewhite lights fly, suns centre tube strung along rail groups two three four fively finding patterns random arrangement lights pass. hours came less, nightfall, supposed. gravity easy jump tube. soft tame foliage for grab, framework Banyan. all different leaves; cover side tube not areas fence (theorise inner surface male arounder surface female). light odd; thingmosphere bluegreen. never dark; shadow, light, fly shift pattern: tree cloud butterflie light approach. jump air intercept light. not heat gentlide lowtensity impeller. ground felt warmer air around. soil smell soil. unforget aroma bactery after rain. dream, waft fog sprinkle systems coalesce rain. climb trees balancee foot branches. fell slowly safely. biggestimal dragonfly four inch wing. realise engineered artifacts program avoid us. no attack. no eat. staffed Tendeysharh, polite considerate carnivore. see us older brothersister civilisation. this clan persian cat part traditional earth moggy slack. sleep. unwindy. think threat, taken care of, do. meteor? 1m-thick bruise plate absorb own mass x90%C. blackholes? no untidy blackhole near farm. also blackhole Narish find quick eat. Bythian never. always eat growing nearby. always drink. always warm soft quiet dark sleep. stay. |
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