Full Circle

[rix_scaedu]

I wrote this to aldersprig's prompt "Are there people left in Rensa's universe who know why these worlds were colonized?"

Cirian first appears in Return Visit.

Cirian was a week early to the meeting. She had thought to do some sight-seeing first and find out how Firilis had changed in the centuries she’d been travelling the stars. Perhaps do some shopping

Comments

[aldersprig]

Oooh!

oooh, I want more of this do you want to trade wordcounts?

Also: is "up to scratch" Australian idiom? I can guess its meaning from context but I'm not familiar with it.

[aldersprig]

[aldersprig]

Hrrrm. My husband (from Buffalo, NY) has heard it "in an old-timey sense," (i.e. from people more than 50 years older than him), so maybe it's just me.

[rix_scaedu]

You moved on faster than the rest of us?

[thnidu]

On rereading, I'm reminded of Poul Anderson's The Boat of a Million Years, even though it really doesn't look like that premise.

η: After reading Return Visit: Maybe not so different after all. Hm!

[rix_scaedu]

I haven't read that one, that I can recall. This group are extremely long lived but they were genetically designed and engineered to be that way.

[thnidu]

Ah.

[rix_scaedu]

Cirian.

I have fixed that. Thank you.