Time and Dirt
(First Day -- Previous Day -- Day 3 -- Next Day)
Day 3
Heliopause Colony on Planet Vertumna, Medbay
“Solane! Oh, you’re still the same... But at least you’ll let me be in peace today. Ouch, I mean, sorry, *sorry* it’s ... it’s all the people in the colony. Especially the council. They promoted me and now insist on calling me *Chief Cultivator Recalcitrance*. At least for you I’ll always be Cal, right?
And ... then they made me stay late for some council meeting today about something utterly irrelevant, and when I said I still had to make sure the old crops are harvested and the new ones in the ground, look after our floatcows and, ugh, there’s so much to do before the wet season... they showed no understanding at all! They didn’t care and even *warned* me to take my new responsibilities as council member seriously. Even in this position they treat me like some small kid, just because I’m 17 and they’re all much older, telling me that I’ll understand later when I’m a grown man.
And worst of all, they all seem to be moving on as if nothing happened! Everyone! AND I CAN’T STAND IT!
I, I’m sorry... sorry I shouted. Really... And sorry that I can’t be there for you more, that I *couldn’t* be there for you more, that I couldn’t stop the bag from falling...”