Acts of Conscience
“Eastward, hanging in banded layers above the plains, was a pattern of low clouds, morning fog perhaps, created by some temperature/pressure differential, coating the landscape like haze. Above that, reaching beyond the horizon, I could see the pale gray peaks of Thisbÿs Bergketen, eighteen hundred kilometers away, not quite rimming the world, broken, there, by a patch of tawny morning sky.That would be Aardlands Bergpas, then, the saddle, dipping down through the tropopause, that was the only w...ay through those mountains available to... beings without technology.Beyond it would be the Adrianis peninsula, with it vast, blinding gypsum deserts, dryer than anything the Earth had ever produced. Home of the Hinterlings, descended from the original colonists of Green Heaven, scientific base technical personal left behind when their organization had folded.The library AI whispered, A yellow wolfen species inhabits the southeastern part of the peninsula, now on the verge of extinction. Planetary records indicate the northern coast of the peninsula, just beyond the equator, is being settled by the families of professional boombanger guides.Boombangers.MoreLess
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