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indicate one or more city vehicles may have been involvedтАж"

"тАж in the Floral asteroids at the Main Belt's lower edge, Gladholder communities report a net
food surplus for the twelfth consecutive year, despite near-record spore flux from the upper
MycosystemтАж"

Et cetera. Finally, more tired even than usual, I fell gratefully into bed and drifted off at once.
And burst awake half an hour later, fumbling the lights on and grabbing my zee-spec off the charging rack
to send, in literal afterthought, a message to Vaclav Lottick, informing him that I'd considered his very
kind offer, and had chosen to accept.

Three

EVOLUTION
'S
ADMIRERS
Originally headquartered in Radar Valley, a tiny dome town on the surface of Callisto, the
Temples of Transcendent Evolution have managed over the past two decades to colonize nearly
every corner of the Immunity, from the outposts of Saturn to the Five Cities of Ganymede. But in
Innensburg, their branch temple was burned to the ground last year with magnesium flares and
other sophisticated pyrotechnics, despite round-the-clock watches following three previous arson
attempts.

"It's an awful thing, human spite," says longtime Temples spokeswoman Jeanine Proust, when I
stop by the reconstruction site to interview her. The trademark binary caduceus emblem is already
in place, raised gold on a burnished silver pillar, and Proust leans against it as she speaks, her
body language protective and angry and tired. "The authorities avert their eyes, of course, or this
couldn't have happened at all, much less gone unsolved. That building was raised and maintained
by hands, you know, by loving human hands, and it contained thousands of g.u. in original
artwork and fixtures, many of them originally from Earth itself. The sentimental value alone is
incalculable. How do you go about healing a loss like that?"

"It's an awful thing, the Temples of Transcendent Evolution," counters another source, an
Innensburg resident who has asked to remain anonymous. "They want to 'commune,' they can
bloody well do it someplace else, someplace where it isn't a bloody salt tablet stitched up in the
wounds. Be a long time before we'll put up with that nonsense, believe you me. You've really got to
wonder just who these people think they are."

It odds, of course, is the Temples' interest in TGL generally and the Mycosystem in particular. Not
proper, one supposes, not healthy, although neither are the fear and divisiveness they so
frequently inspire.

The polite fiction these days is that we in the Immunity are all one people, united by one culture,
one history. is the joke goes, our official language is English with a Swiss accent, and if there are
racists or nationalists among us, they keep exceedingly quiet. And why not? Against the backdrop
of the Mycosystem, what difference a human gene twisted this way or that? Even religious
tolerance has come back into vogue; the western faiths quibble over similarities rather than
differences, and seem to view the remaining animists and polytheists with, if not respect, at least a
sort of good-natured neglect.