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“A rabbit basketball player,” he said “The mole was like a rabbit whisker Balecheck like ‘ball check’ Also traveling is a foul in basketball, and he’s planetary transportation”
Her sigh er at Deputy Minister Balecheck’shad paving tar on his scrotum”
Biryar coughed out soh
“Thattar will remind you of the road system”
“Good lord Are you always this obscene, Dr Rittenaur? I’ sex”
“If you don’t like it, erase it fro,” she said
“I don’t think I’ll be able to now”
She tapped her forehead with the tip of her finger, and she grinned “Which is my point It works better if you commit to the process,” she said Then she kissed his ear
Biryar had two hundred and eighteen individuals and fifty-three organizations to coraphy, it was theto have to travel as the first Laconian governor of Auberon
He hadn’t been surprised when Duarte had chosen hih to enter government service, excelled in his coursework, taken every initiative to rise ah Consul Duarte’s early philosophical works and their relationship to exahout human history Auberon hadn’t been a specific a of importance to the empire had been Medina or Bara Gaon or Sol, a position in the High Consul’s cabinet or teaching at the university on Laconia would have served his hopes as well
The reason, he knew, that he was in the craovernor’s mansion was Mona Her ser than she was and somehow elfin, but his as the best soils scientist of her generation While he had been writing an academic love letter to theout paths to bring the thousand different biospheres into accord, to engineer everywhere what Auberon had happened onto by chance
Before she’d taken a single step under Auberon’s sun or drawn a breath of its air, Mona understood the richness of its dirt, and the potential that rested there Her post would be at the Xi-Taricultural Concern in the capital city of Barradan, where the governor’s office would be Their skills and backgrounds were perfectly suited for the post He could only hope that the millions of inhabitants of Auberon saw that too
He switched to the next ie A hard-faced woman with dark-brown eyes He didn’t need a er was the Auberon representative of the Association of Worlds, and one of the only people he would be ruling over that he’d actually e but the screen shifted on its own and a scheduled request took its place He let a breath out between his teeth and rose from his crash couch Mona popped another almond into her mouth and watched him walk the few steps to the cabin door
“I’ll be back,” he said She nodded, and didn’t speak
They were already in their braking burn, the floor of the Notus pushing up against the rooned froate hub, aiting for hi aside the reater discipline was called for Hewas done Not because he wanted to, but because he didn’t And it was his duty