Eyes and Ears

[The Operative]

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A cute attempt to find out more about his origin, her first question. "Some of those birds are on my homeworld as well, however they don't originate from there. You know how it is. Travelers bring wildlife from one world to another. So there are imports from all worlds of Sirius on my homeworld." That was saying enough nothing, he hoped. "I have had a good time, don't worry. I tend to enjoy every opportunity for joy I can get. How is that with you? I take it you're a hedonist as well?" He didn't want to mention how the other Forlorn members talked openly about her promiscuity. Not that that was a bad thing in her age. "By the way, I don't want to be a spook. It just happens to be that way when you try to give nothing about your personal data away. Or do you feel haunted by me?" Some of the trees were actually pretty big, he noticed. It made him wonder how the hell they got the trees of that size into the biodome. The Operative remembered the trouble his inferiors had when they brought a tree to the hydroponics module of the a certain ship.

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