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"The vine is the easiest part of the native civilization to adapt to
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She was staying here and doing her best to masquerade as a native
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Earth's exile community here on this planet is small, herself, derived of an Angel downloaded into a native body, Alan, raised from a frozen zygote by the same expedition that brought her, and the thirty one Brazilians that survived cryofreeze, with or without the intervention of the Kassikan
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"Bom Dia!" she said, but remained in the native language after that because it had been so long now, fourteen decades, since she had used a word of any other language
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Were he a native he would have caressed her bottom also, she had not yet met one who wouldn't if they were a former lover or even applying to be a lover
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She had not seen Herndon in person since he left for the Gengee, fourteen decades ago by the native calendar, sixty years by Earth's
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However the native humans got here back in the ice age, they brought few diseases with them and almost nothing of the native biosphere could infect such an alien biology as a human being
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She knew as he said it that he could not have said that to a native, they couldn't comprehend it, it was like saying Fort Knox had disappeared to a 20th century American or Wall Street was missing to a 21st century American
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It was this native body again, and Herndon's presence, his bulging arms on the wheel of a powerful machine
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Yes, the whole native data system is shut down for the forty or so hours of dark every week, no messages can be sent or picked up on the old crystals or the new
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It was, for all intents and purposes, a rum runner from the mid 20th century, reproduced using what they could of native technology
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"To you, to the individuals they interact with, but to the native civilization? No
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He had to admit it, the native women had shocked him enough that he came to her
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I think I said how I have more of a native eye for this boat and see a great penis with way too much motor," Ava told him
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It had been a tempestuous twenty Earth years, their native servants had gossiped ceaselessly, but Tdeshi's hormones had always seen her thru the rage and the hurt
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Neither was willing to accept enough of the native culture to leave the familiarity they provided each other
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Now she was in the native culture
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She had a fine home in the native culture
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She was with a fine man in the native culture
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I wish to retain some of the good parts of our culture alongside the native culture
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In a sense she was a native, this body was born here of native parents back when Alan was the only person of Earth ancestry walking here
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She knew, better than any native, what that would mean here
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He had a native woman, he employed natives in a manner they were familiar with
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Wilderness camping is not one of the parts of the native experience that she liked the best
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She hadn't been a native as long then, she hadn't adjusted to sharing her men, not even a copy
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"The native men on the ground could easily have you distracted
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She didn't see what she could do about it, other than make another copy of her soul to have a few more of the native men without her
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That was probably one native custom he had not worked out of his employees
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How ironic however, she was nearly three times as old as anyone on Earth was the day she was born, but she was young for a native
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of Native American studies and
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She noticed it was the native liquor, not alcohol
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Instead she tried to leave the native world aside for now and come back to getting her own house in order first
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"Do you usually drink this much of this native elixer?" Glenelle asked
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After playing with the native data system only a few hours, she already gave Ava's perspective a lot more consideration than she would have just a year ago, well actually a hundred forty five years ago
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But for the remainder of the evening Ava took her to a simulation of a native entertainment district
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She was so blown on the native elixir that she just sat there and wondered on the intricacies of all the grown and grafted wood that went into the room in which they sat
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In spite of being in the native language, she saw it was from a guy who had come to this system on the Brazilian ship but was now living seventeen hundred miles south west of the city where they landed
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She had gotten used to native standards of bodily contact in social interaction in this universe and enjoyed his fingers in her soft flesh
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That was not a part of the simulation of the native music hall she was interacting with at the time
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In the past year she'd also developed a taste for the native intoxicant
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It was the size and general shape of a native life form called a ksarid, colloquially translated as 'bird
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They blinked into a news center together to have what was known on the native media around them while they discussed this
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The native channel selector under the helmet interface was like being inside a ball with screens all round you and when you looked into one it would be the channel
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Just after he was done Narrulla's Tear passed into eclipse where they are unable to reach a lighted tower on the native data system and thus unable to continue a connection thru it
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Glenelle could hear that he was accented in the native language
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By this time she had figured the shuttlecraft would have to intercept that wagon on its next orbit or do some serious maneuvering, or wait another native week
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It was said to be beyond anything Earth had ever produced, shouldn't they get a sample of it? It was said the Christials cracked it, but not the Brazilians, they became users of the native system that now had Brazilan technology added on
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They could not fear that their souls in silicon would be contaminated by native viruses
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And wouldn't those repairs be the ones the native wizards had done to their own population?
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Afternoonday was just beginning, the sun was more than halfway across the sky and his native staff were bustling about in the kitchen
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The woman named Elond, his native approximation of a wife, was still asleep
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That technique rendered them invisible to native astronomers, but Talstan's intelligence had not known that the Brazilian military had already standardized these signals when the Lula was launched
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He was convinced she loved him, in some sense at least, but in almost everything, she was a native and he was a foreigner
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In a mortal lifetime, he knew as much as anyone did of the facts and figures and customs of this world, native or terrestrial
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" He still forgot to translate to native years in astronomical calculations, then to the native way of numbering
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She was one in a million among the native girls for that
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She was serious and industrious by native standards, meaning she would strive for more than enough to eat to get to tomorrow
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There was quite a big herd of karga brought in that day and he had to arrange extra haulage, a Nightday trip for more brining jars and a celebration to be had in the native tradition at the end of the next week when the last of the jars was finally transported off
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That was consistent with the nudging of a large asteroid a third of a billion miles deep in space, somewhere in the ice belt of 61 Cygni C, 'Cynd' to a native
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The governor failed to see the significance of that data, even when native astronomers noticed a large member of Cynd's asteroid belt had been knocked from its orbit on a course to plunge deep into the gravity well of the brown dwarf
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Native astronomers assumed it had collided with a smaller asteroid in a solar orbit and that had changed its orbit
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The native astronomers didn't detect the ship, Elond never mentioned the asteroid collision articles and forgot about the incoming starship when no actual threat materialized and everyday life went on
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Native years whizzed by like fence posts on the side of the road
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Three Earth years worked their way by while they debated the merits of a national boundary versus integration with the native economy and ignored the iceberg tumbling ever deeper into the brown dwarf's gravity well
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Klowee had her first decade and was introduced to the privileges and responsibilities of a one decade in the native tradition with only a vedn cake frosted with whipped sugar froth to mark customs of Earth, a token of which only he and Beeta partook
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He had to trust that the native astronomers would notice something like that
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It was also important that he be allowed to participate in the native society as much as he volunteered to, as all individuals did in their society
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Their first two sons had been born while they were still in the Yakhan and still under scrutiny by the native media
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"That's not a curse," Herndon told her, "That is a religious classification that ours does fit into in the native language
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Having to use the native words put him back in the native language again
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None of them had spared each other's ears when discussing the glacial pace of native construction away from a major city and the tribulations of trying to get something done about it
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Blaise had only a short frown, brought a flask of native serum out of a pocket in his loose bottomed pantaloons
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In this they had gone more native than he
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The sticking point was native passage thru the territory
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They were still big parcels of land by native standards, ten to a hundred acres
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The average native family had between one and three acres in this society and planted most of it with most of their diet, most of the remainder of their diet being varmints trapped while trying to eat it
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Herndon was already getting lost in the details of the map because of the native serum and had to force himself back on topic
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That was an obvious barb toward him, having taken a native wife that he had to share multiple times per native year
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Perhaps he had desecrated his heritage by diluting his seed in the immense native population, but with all their catholic reproductive zeal, there were still less than a hundred pure-blooded Brazilians and less than a thousand known any-blood Brazilians on this planet of forty billion
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Isadore probably wasn't attractive enough to get other company in native society
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She made excellent children also, they would have Brazilian size and strength, native resilience, health and beauty
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"Because you don't hire native help," Herndon pointed out
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Herndon sighed, he was far from the most native among them
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A good fraction of the original crew has gone totally native and disappeared from their knowledge on the hands of native girls, including one of only two shuttle pilots, on their first trip outside the Kassikan
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Herndon got back over there for the service and found the family in an uproar because the disease specialist they called had snatched the body off to the Kassikan for study and Ernesto's remains were now somewhere in the air over the Gengee arm, heading for the tunnel in the cargo net of a native floater, a lighter-than-air mobile plant
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He was afraid he was going to be paralyzed by the native anti-violence virus they had all contracted
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But that was only because of the native virus, he could still imagine the tortures he would have inflicted on them to get it out of them if it wasn't for that artificial Instinct
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He thought back to the American woman he knew, the previously silicon-simulated one in the native woman's body
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She had gone very native even before he left for the south and the Gengee
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He knew she was accessible on the native data system, just as he was
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Native electronics had never known the fixed hardware stage and had always contained facilities for on-line hardware updates
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Their native land might have been destroyed, but they were a seed sprouting here in the Gengee Cerrado
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With Byram Hermosa from the shop, he cruised down the narrow canal between the thick roots of towering apartment trees and into the open lake, bound for the Yakhan, determined to cover the fifteen hundred miles in a native week
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Traffic, weather, stops for fuel and food, and a slow passage thru the tunnel because it was choked with a sunken ship made it take a day longer than two weeks, but that was still a third of the time it took for the fastest native airships
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Of course a lot of those animal calls are actually native music of the 'space' genre being played on sound systems in the apartments of these trees
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"Yes," he sighed, she talked like such a native
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He had to hand it to the native manufactures, they are durable
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When you understand that native cities look like steep crags festooned with lush jungle, it is easy to be impressed with the skyline of henarDee as it came into view almost another hour later
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"Treasured memories will be," Kulai said and extended his hand in the native fashion
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"In was in that newsletter your 'governador' publishes," she used the Portuguese word, there is really no translation in the native language
