Lacking gravity plates like those in all Collector ships, the station spun so its inhabitants could enjoy centrifugal gravity in the outer ring. The central globe had openings at the north and south poles for entry by local spaceships. The Blue Sky, at a thousand feet long, was far too big to enter the station’s docking tunnel. Anyway, Jane wished to go directly to the Hall of Silver Scales. Which was why the two of us, with Chester and Time Marker, were seated in a transport being piloted by Builder of Joy. It was nice to once more fly through the white clouds of a world, a place where people lived. Walking snakes people, that is. Bill looked at the man-size holo that filled the aisle between the rows of bench-seats that filled the cargohold of the transport. In the holo was a beautiful world of blue oceans, green forests and purple mountains. Actually, the northernmost continent now filled the holo as they descended quickly on the ship’s Magfield drive. Using a spacedrive that interacted directly with the world’s magnetic field made for well-controlled landings.
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