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And he had somehow stepped above them all, and had been chosen to fly the ISV Carl Sagan to the stars. For four months he flew around Earth, from interview to interview (Face-to-face, in his very special case) until the last week on Earth, where he visited the Millesgarden with a good friend and then went to Earthport to take his leave.
But there was a problem.
He had gone out there, on the mission to Titan, along with nineteen other people. Including the beast-headed woman. And Laura, well, she had come back from Titan having committed the crime of falling in love with a human.
People sometimes saw them together on Earthport – It all happened on Kenya Earthport – or in the colonies, the former being the place where they spent most of their time: It was the Golden Hour, and it had all – All thirty years of it – happened right there, right there on Kenya Earthport itself. What better place to live in?
It was illegal, indecent, disgusting – Since legally she wasn’t sentient. To Mankind she was a huge lump of meant that merely looked human, had learned to act like one, wear shoes and not make a mess. (Those poor people, those horrible, horrible people, they had no idea what they were making. If she had been allowed to live a normal life everything would’ve turned out allright – But the hate and the torment, the way she had been brought up, shaped something).