Stone and sand are flamboyantly colored and the sky is royal blue.
Thornbush smells slightly like pepper and fish cooked over a fire smells savory.
A native creature is heard to wail.
The air is cool but Kenri and Nivala are warmly clad.
Kenri serves the meal so I think that we can count taste as a fifth sense.
Even the Kith have a history. When ships were smaller, an aquarium would have been a wasteful use of garden space so eating fish became taboo even when offship but now ships are larger and the taboo is fading.
Space travelers had to be intelligent and stable, although able to react quickly, and preferably physically smaller although also tough. Dark skin protects against soft radiation. Time dilation and cultural gap prevent intermarriage and new recruitment. Thus, the Kith become a distinct racial type, eventually despised by the genetically engineered Dominancy aristocracy.
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Kaor, Paul!
Stsrted rereading the original text of "Ghetto." In that version the Dominancy was the Star Empire, and Nivala was originally named Dorthy (Dorothy?). And houses in Kith Town were half buried domes.
And Kenri Shaun thought at one point that the genetic engineers of the Star Empire/Dominancy should be loved for bringing back tall, beautiful, blonde, blue-eyed girls.
Ad astra! Sean
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