HABITAT
Christie YantGROUP 201583G, SUBJECT 39B
CULTURAL INTEGRATION SESSION #1
The woman sits in a room alone on a narrow bench, the ceiling too close, the seat too hard. The walls glow softly, then erupt into colours unnatural to her eyes. She blinks, and recognizes a facsimile of her forest home.
The trees disappear and for a vertiginous moment she is suspended in a dark night sky. The sights that follow—of people, some like her, some not; of suffering, drought, starvation; of war fought for water or a patch of green—these are stories she knows, the story of her own people and all the people who remain.
The voice that fills the room speaks her language, but is accented strangely. Some of the words are not ones she knows.
Earth.
Humankind once believed that the Earth and its bount
