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walk out had been. That had happened a long time ago, but he could still remember the staggering
astonishment of it perfectly.

This was not like that. тАЬIt doesnтАЩt seem as big as I thought it would,тАЭ he said. тАЬI guess itтАЩs the curvature
of the land, it being such a small planet and all.тАЭ As the lectern said. тАЬThe horizon isnтАЩt any farther away
than one side of Zygote to the other!тАЭ

тАЬUh huh,тАЭ Coyote said, giving him a look. тАЬYou better not let Big Man hear you say such a thing, he kick
your ass for that.тАЭ ThenтАФтАЭWhoтАЩs your father, boy?тАЭ

тАЬI donтАЩt know. Hiroko is my mother.тАЭ

Coyote snorted. тАЬHiroko takes the matriarchy too far, if you ask me.тАЭ

тАЬHave you told her that?тАЭ

тАЬYou bet I have, but Hiroko only listens to me when I say things she wants to hear.тАЭ He cackled. тАЬSame
as with everyone, right?тАЭ

Nirgal nodded, a grin splitting his attempt to be impassive.

тАЬYou want to find out who your father is?тАЭ
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тАЬSure.тАЭ Actually he was not sure. The concept of father meant little to him; and he was afraid it would
turn out to be Simon. Peter was like an older brother to him, after all.

тАЬTheyтАЩve got the equipment in Vishniac. We can try there if you want.тАЭ Coyote shook his head. тАЬHiroko
is so strange. When I met her you would never have guessed it would come to this. Of course we were
young thenтАФalmost as young as you are, though you will find that hard to credit.тАЭ

Which was true.

тАЬWhen I met her she was just a young eco-engineering student, smart as a whip and sexy as a cat. None
of this mother goddess of the world stuff. But by and by she started to read books that were not her
technical manuals, and it went on and on and by the time she got to Mars she was crazy. Before, actually.
Which is lucky for me as that is why IтАЩm here. But Hiroko, oh my. She was convinced that all human
history had gone wrong at the start. At the dawn of civilization, she would say to me very seriously, there
was Crete and Sumeria, and Crete had a peaceful trading culture, run by women and filled with art and
beautyтАФa Utopia in fact, where the men were acrobats who jumped bulls all day, and women all night,
and got the women pregnant and worshipped them, and everyone was happy. It sounds good except for
the bulls. While Sumeria on the other hand was ruled by men, who invented war and conquered
everything in sight and started all the slave empires that have come since. And no one knew, Hiroko said,
what might have happened if these two civilizations had had a chance to contest the rule of the world,
because a volcano blew Crete to kingdom come, . and the world passed into SumeriaтАЩs hands and has
never left it to this day. If only that volcano had been in Sumeria, she used to tell me, everything would be
different. And maybe itтАЩs true. Because history could hardly get any blacker than it has been.тАЭ