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"Yes, but I'm trying to understand, how is it that Jeff assigns you something to study? Are you both in some sort of a study group in school? He looks quite a bit older than you. And are you planning a career track that will use economics?" He looked genuinely puzzled.
"I'm not in any formal school right now, except a Japanese class at the University of Kyoto. I don't think I'll ever not be studying something. I'm studying to get my lander certification and I'll have to put some hours in to qualify on the specific type lander I have access to. When I went down to Earth the trip before this one, I suggested strongly to Jeff he start a bank while there was a window of opportunity on Home. By the time I came back he'd formed it and was gathering a clientele and doing transactions. He'd just started coining a local currency, the Solar, and if I wanted to be of any use to Jeff and Heather to actually help run the thing I needed to understand economics. Since it was my idea in the first place it seems like it would be pretty hard to refuse to help run it. We three do a lot of business together and they always pitch in when I need something."
"How can you contract to do business? I mean, how old are you?"
"I'm sixteen, but I'm an emancipated adult. If I look young to you, well I've had Life Extension Therapy and it pretty much all kicked in before I was fourteen. I probably won't look much different until I'm past twenty five. I'm content with how I look. If anybody has a problem with it – it's their problem."
"She's the girl who was in Hawaii last year dad. They tried to hush it all up because it's super antisocial to dress like her and she disappeared from Hawaii and nobody knew where she went or anything and then she showed back up here and was in the gossip boards and stuff again. But my friends in Europe and Australia all send me pix and stuff the net censors block. I got 'em all on my phone. I'll show you sometime if you want," Jenifer offered.
"Don't believe everything you see about me," April begged. "If you want to know if something is true ask me and I'll tell you honestly,OK?"
"OK, then tell me please, how can you eat such a big breakfast? You had twice as much as Mr. Tindal and you're half his size." Her dad looked horrified at the question.
"My parents bought me some genetic modifications and I added some myself later. My metabolism can run quite a bit faster than normal so I eat more. It lets me do some things like run a lot further than other people."
"That's really personal stuff, Jenifer," her dad told her.
"Well she said to ask!"
"If there is ever anything I ever don't want to answer, I'll just tell you. Your dad is right, I have some stuff I keep private, just not the same stuff he might guess. Now down on Earth lots of people believe gen mod people are horrible and a lot of people think Life Extension Therapy is bad too, but nobody makes a fuss about it up here."
"This is a whole lot better than the breakfast at school," Iaan told them. "And there's no compliance officer counting our food groups." He blinked and looked at his empty plates and his sister's with a funny expression. "And I didn't even think about throwing any of it away!"
* * *
"You were unusually tactful with Mr. Wilson," Gunny said later, out in the corridor.
"Compared to my – usual self?"
"Well, you could have felt he was attacking your friend Ruby when he suggested service workers were not fit company. You do tend to have a certain directness."
"I'm remembering how Lin told us they need to be so careful hiring people for the boat. It is probably the same in North America. Desperate people do bad things. If Lin is careful of his boat and crew how much more is Matt going to guard his kids? But we'll nudge him along to see it's Earth think, that he can ease off on a little bit. Maybe we are as hard to understand to them. I sure hope we don't get more criminal and corrupt people than we can weed out, so Home stays
"Yes, but I'm trying to understand, how is it that Jeff assigns you something to study? Are you both in some sort of a study group in school? He looks quite a bit older than you. And are you planning a career track that will use economics?" He looked genuinely puzzled.
"I'm not in any formal school right now, except a Japanese class at the University of Kyoto. I don't think I'll ever not be studying something. I'm studying to get my lander certification and I'll have to put some hours in to qualify on the specific type lander I have access to. When I went down to Earth the trip before this one, I suggested strongly to Jeff he start a bank while there was a window of opportunity on Home. By the time I came back he'd formed it and was gathering a clientele and doing transactions. He'd just started coining a local currency, the Solar, and if I wanted to be of any use to Jeff and Heather to actually help run the thing I needed to understand economics. Since it was my idea in the first place it seems like it would be pretty hard to refuse to help run it. We three do a lot of business together and they always pitch in when I need something."
"How can you contract to do business? I mean, how old are you?"
"I'm sixteen, but I'm an emancipated adult. If I look young to you, well I've had Life Extension Therapy and it pretty much all kicked in before I was fourteen. I probably won't look much different until I'm past twenty five. I'm content with how I look. If anybody has a problem with it – it's their problem."
"She's the girl who was in Hawaii last year dad. They tried to hush it all up because it's super antisocial to dress like her and she disappeared from Hawaii and nobody knew where she went or anything and then she showed back up here and was in the gossip boards and stuff again. But my friends in Europe and Australia all send me pix and stuff the net censors block. I got 'em all on my phone. I'll show you sometime if you want," Jenifer offered.
"Don't believe everything you see about me," April begged. "If you want to know if something is true ask me and I'll tell you honestly,OK?"
"OK, then tell me please, how can you eat such a big breakfast? You had twice as much as Mr. Tindal and you're half his size." Her dad looked horrified at the question.
"My parents bought me some genetic modifications and I added some myself later. My metabolism can run quite a bit faster than normal so I eat more. It lets me do some things like run a lot further than other people."
"That's really personal stuff, Jenifer," her dad told her.
"Well she said to ask!"
"If there is ever anything I ever don't want to answer, I'll just tell you. Your dad is right, I have some stuff I keep private, just not the same stuff he might guess. Now down on Earth lots of people believe gen mod people are horrible and a lot of people think Life Extension Therapy is bad too, but nobody makes a fuss about it up here."
"This is a whole lot better than the breakfast at school," Iaan told them. "And there's no compliance officer counting our food groups." He blinked and looked at his empty plates and his sister's with a funny expression. "And I didn't even think about throwing any of it away!"
* * *
"You were unusually tactful with Mr. Wilson," Gunny said later, out in the corridor.
"Compared to my – usual self?"
"Well, you could have felt he was attacking your friend Ruby when he suggested service workers were not fit company. You do tend to have a certain directness."
"I'm remembering how Lin told us they need to be so careful hiring people for the boat. It is probably the same in North America. Desperate people do bad things. If Lin is careful of his boat and crew how much more is Matt going to guard his kids? But we'll nudge him along to see it's Earth think, that he can ease off on a little bit. Maybe we are as hard to understand to them. I sure hope we don't get more criminal and corrupt people than we can weed out, so Home stays
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