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It nestled snugly in the center of a bowl-shaped valley whose surrounding forest clad hills gave mute confirmation to the fact that Kardon was still primitive, an unsettled world that had not yet reached the explosive stage of population growth that presaged maturity. But that was no disadvantage. In fact, Kennon liked it. Living could be fun on a planet like this.
There's a great deal for you to learn. It should keep you busy while I'm away." "Away? Where are you going?" "Back to Kardon." "But you can't! Alexander will destroy you." "I think not. After all, ten years have elapsed since we left there and he's had plenty of time to think. Douglas must have told him about us. I wouldn't be surprised if he has already done something about your people."
"Not at the moment," Kennon said. "Something troubling you?" "No just thought I'd drop in for a moment and congratulate you." "For what?" "For surviving the first year." "That won't be for two months yet." Blalok shook his head. "This is Kardon," he said. "There's only three hundred and two days in our year, ten thirty-day months and two special days at the year's end." Kennon shrugged.
Perhaps, he thought wryly, it was a symptom of the gradual erosion of his moral character in this abnormal environment. "I'm getting stale," he confided to Copper as he sat in his office idly turning the pages of the Kardon Journal of Allied Medical Sciences. "There's nothing to do that's interesting." "You could help me," Copper said as she looked up from the pile of cards she was sorting.
What with colonial jurisdiction, territorial rights, and all the legal quibbling that committees love, the Lani would get a poor deal. And there's no reason to wreck the lives of a couple of hundred million Kardonians because the rightful owners of Kardon were illegally enslaved. That happened too long ago to have any practical meaning. There are other and better solutions." "What?"
Change the education, let males be born teach the young to think instead of to obey. Give them Phoebe for a home they never owned all of Kardon anyway. And within a century or two we will have a new group of the human race and then we can tell the Brotherhood." Kennon looked inquiringly at Copper. She smiled and nodded. "It would cause less trouble that way," she said.
Leaving Flora wouldn't be particularly difficult, but leaving Kardon would be virtually impossible. His contract called for vacations, but it expressly provided that they would be taken on Kardon. And again, there would be no assurance that his activities would not be watched. In fact, it was probable that they would be. There was nothing that could be done immediately.
"Oh you think I'm doing that?" "Yes and it is a mark of barbarism." "Sometimes you're not very nice," Copper said. Kennon smiled wryly. "I suppose I'm not," he agreed. "I'll try to be civilized," Copper said. "But if you go to Kardon I'm going with you." "Perhaps," Kennon said. "We'll see how things turn out." "You don't want me to go with you?" "To be honest no," Kennon said.
"It just goes to show what parallel evolution can do. But there are differences." "I never knew that there was indigenous humanoid life on Kardon," Kennon continued. "The manual says nothing about it." "Naturally. They're indigenous only to this area." "That's impossible. Species as highly organized as that simply don't originate on isolated islands."
What he believed might be good enough to hold up in a Brotherhood court, but he doubted it. Ulf and Lyssa might be the founders of the Lani race, but they had come to Kardon nearly four thousand years ago and no records existed to prove that the Lani weren't here before they came. Redes passed by word of mouth through hundreds of generations were not evidence.
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