then they began to muse about where all these visitors had come from, and what they hoped to find here. Was Lefthand their first stop before heading up to La Ronge or one of the many other cities-in-progress? Were they tourists on a pleasure tour of undeveloped planets, or scammers drawn to a city whose laws were still in flux? No matter what they were, they weren’t owners—Verdance mandated that everyone buy an H. sapiens body if they wanted to live on Sasky. It was part of the sales pitch. Settle on virgin Pleistocene land, with your pure H. sapiens neighbors, reliving the glory days of
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