Marijam and Nazaret have been here five days now. They have decided to stay on Terrestra a while. Marijam has found an exciting new project. She’s actually going to be involved with the reintegration of the Z Zone. She may be working with Kaleem, wherever he may be.  Nazaret has managed to persuade the Plantation governors on Zandra that he should do some work here. He’ll be looking more closely at plant-life here, in particular the evolution of the Common Oak – the plant that is saving Zandra. It is interesting. It’s already responding to the rapid season cycles on Zandra.

Marijam and I talked about Kaleem yesterday. I almost envied her and Nazaret but then remembered how many years she’d been without him before they met again. I’ve only been without Kaleem for a coupl...

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