Viewscreens can show either the exterior view or flowing color compositions. Knowing that his guest, the Kirkasanter woman, Graydal, dislikes the view of open space, Laure chooses a color composition but, when she requests the exterior view, the ship responds to Laure's rueful spreading of hands by granting the request. Next, the ship serves drinks on a tray extended from the side. She, Jaccavrie, the ship, offers a considerable choice of wines and is an excellent cook although Graydal must use a Kirkasanter salt-shaker because Commonalty food is bland to her whereas her salt contains too much arsenic for (ordinary) human beings.
A future history series is built on imaginative details whether in Robert Heinlein's Luna City or at the northern edge of a spiral arm with a Ranger of the Commonalty.
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Kaor, Paul!
And that Kirkasanter "salt" laced with arsenic gives us more clues about the planet and how it came to affect the human colonists.
Ad astra! Sean
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