World of Water
“There was an area of parkland, with threadbare grass and a handful of sad, stunted trees. There was an attempt at a shopping mall, a two-tiered gallery of stores selling clothes, knickknacks, kitchenware and dried goods. There was a nightclub made out of three standard habitat cubes shoved together, and next to that, a strip club called Venus In A Shell.
It was all bit scraggy and gimcrack, but then what could you expect from a small community perched on – to use Ty’s colourful phrase – a pimpl...e on the butt-end of the galaxy?
The Moot wasn’t hard to locate. As Aletha had advised, Dev followed the sound of voices, a babble which echoed all the way up to the dome’s apex. It led him through the parkland to a plaza, where benches and tables were laid out in the open, encircled by a ring of lampposts. Drinks were being served at a roofed bar in the middle of the space. Dev counted perhaps twenty locals, variously sitting or standing, necking beer and liquor. He loitered just outside the plaza’s perimeter, in a clump of shrubbery beyond the reach of the lamplight, and observed surreptitiously for a while.MoreLess
It was all bit scraggy and gimcrack, but then what could you expect from a small community perched on – to use Ty’s colourful phrase – a pimpl...e on the butt-end of the galaxy?
The Moot wasn’t hard to locate. As Aletha had advised, Dev followed the sound of voices, a babble which echoed all the way up to the dome’s apex. It led him through the parkland to a plaza, where benches and tables were laid out in the open, encircled by a ring of lampposts. Drinks were being served at a roofed bar in the middle of the space. Dev counted perhaps twenty locals, variously sitting or standing, necking beer and liquor. He loitered just outside the plaza’s perimeter, in a clump of shrubbery beyond the reach of the lamplight, and observed surreptitiously for a while.MoreLess
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