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THAT STATEMENT chilled me. Through all of the time that I’d been here, he’d shown little emotion, no empathy with the people who had died, and a bucketload of contempt for the Coldi.
Even if we all agreed that a climatic engineering project was necessary, he was not a person I’d want to put in charge of it, let alone a project that involved the lives of five billion people.
He lifted a warning finger. “Asto is ours. I want to see it again. I’m an old man. Is it such a strange request that want to see my home world green and healthy again?”
“The planet is inhabited. The current inhabitants won’t see the benefit. They’re numerous and smart.” I cringed to talk about Ezhya in this way. “They are very capable of carrying out large projects if they see the need.” Terraforming? I was sure
