6 DOWN BELOW
2253 A.D. DAY EIGHT AT Tau Ceti
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TODAY WAS THE DAY THAT I had decided to go to the Down Below to check out the activities of the Ascension Society dwelling there. To assist me in this task by providing comic relief, I decided that Fido should accompany me on this 800-mile safari. Fido was willing and eager to get started, and not prepared for the characters he would meet on this adventure.
We hopped the lift for the forty-minute trip to Down Below, and we entertained ourselves by staring out at the rapidly passing ship-scape and staring unabashedly at any-and-all passengers that boarded in the interim. Fido got excited when we crossed the bridge where we had encountered the gray squirrel brigade. I think that he remembered the fun he had with the little rodents.
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