Enemies of the System
“The ongoing nature of a land vehicle; the whisper of air-conditioning; the long-familiar experience of hearing a voice electronically transmitted; listening to mildly tedious lectures; promise of an hospitable destination; all those things had vanished which, while they existed, had shielded the tourists from the understanding that they were but specks on an alien face, a long way from the System, vulnerable.
Rubyna Constanza brushed down her red uniform and said, with a tolerable imitation of ...her official voice, “Please do not stray too far from the bus. There is no cause for alarm. We shall be missed when we do not rendezvous at the Gorge with the other buses. Although the radio is not working, they can phone to Unity by land-line, and Air Rescue will come out immediately.” As an afterthought, she added, “Normally, the bus itself is in constant radio contact with Unity …”
“How many E-hours is all that going to take?” asked a fair-haired woman, a seasons technician with great experience of the Saturn micro-system.MoreLess
Rubyna Constanza brushed down her red uniform and said, with a tolerable imitation of ...her official voice, “Please do not stray too far from the bus. There is no cause for alarm. We shall be missed when we do not rendezvous at the Gorge with the other buses. Although the radio is not working, they can phone to Unity by land-line, and Air Rescue will come out immediately.” As an afterthought, she added, “Normally, the bus itself is in constant radio contact with Unity …”
“How many E-hours is all that going to take?” asked a fair-haired woman, a seasons technician with great experience of the Saturn micro-system.MoreLess
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