The City of the Sun
“Conrad and Linda began in the fields, assessing the agricultural status of the colony, but moved on as soon as they had collected basic data and sufficient specimens for later scrutinization into the city, where they began to investigate diet, hygiene and health. They found the citizens cooperative but not talkative. They were allowed to take blood samples but there was always a Servant in attendance to make sure that the parasite cells weren’t touched. These data were given priority in analysi...s.
The rest of us also found that we were shadowed just about everywhere that we went by helpful but suspicious Servants. We’d lived with exactly the same problem during our early days on Wildeblood, and we were used to it—but that didn’t make it any less of an imposition. Nathan and Mariel went straight into the city with all kinds of recording apparatus—film and tape. It took them only a couple of days to get a basic record of the situation in glorious Technicolor, and Mariel was left to sort through the film in search of anything helpful while Nathan carried on the interrogation work he’d already begun.MoreLess
The rest of us also found that we were shadowed just about everywhere that we went by helpful but suspicious Servants. We’d lived with exactly the same problem during our early days on Wildeblood, and we were used to it—but that didn’t make it any less of an imposition. Nathan and Mariel went straight into the city with all kinds of recording apparatus—film and tape. It took them only a couple of days to get a basic record of the situation in glorious Technicolor, and Mariel was left to sort through the film in search of anything helpful while Nathan carried on the interrogation work he’d already begun.MoreLess
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