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. Have you seen the sort of
pressure suits they have here?" "Gretchen, I have seen one hospital room and one
drop tube and this swimming pool. I don't even know my way to the post office."
"Mmm, yes. Anyhow, pressure suits here are two thousand years more advanced
than those we use in Luna. Which isn't surprising... but surely surprised Papa.
Eventually Deety made a deal for me. I could stay on Tertius... but visit back
home every year or two if I could find someone to bring me. And Deety promised
to help with that. Mama made Papa agree to it. After all, almost anyone in Luna
would emigrate to a planet like Tertius if he could... except those who just
have to have low gravity. Speaking of that, sir, how do you like your new foot?"
"I'm just now getting used to it. But two feet are eight hundred and
ninety-seven times better than one foot."
"I guess that means you like it. So I came back and enlisted in the Time
Corps-"
"Slow down! I keep hearing 'Time Corps.' Rabbi Ezra says that he has joined
it. This baggage with the streaky red hair claims to be a major in it. And now
you say you enlisted in it. At thirteen? Or at your present age? I'm confused."
"Grandma? I mean, 'Hazel?'"
"She was allowed to enroll as a cadet in W.E.N.C.H.E.S. auxiliary because I
said she was old enough. That got her sent to school on Paradox. When she
graduated, she transferred to the Second Harpies and went through basic training
followed by advanced combat school-"
"And when we dropped at Solis Lacus on time line four to change the outcome
there-then, and that's where I picked up this scar on my ribs-see?-and was made
corporal in the field
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