Kurultai 3

Sophie

Kurultai record, day 665. Nahema wanted to meet tomorrow, as she imagines she is the devil on my shoulder. But she is not as funny as she thinks.

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Nahema

You do think I'm funny. Correct that.

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Sophie

Nahema is very funny.

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Nahema

You never have any life in these logs. You never say "I think." Why?

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Sophie

So now my ecologist cares about the life of people as well as zooplankton?

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Nahema

I love people. It's humans I'm not sure about.

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Sophie

Tell me about the humans. Anita's Jubilee group is feeding off the land. What will happen to the ecosystem?

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Nahema

This place is missing the primary production it needs to survive. It's hanging on by a thread—eating dead matter. If we fish and forage, the trophic pyramid just collapses faster.

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Sophie

That's not possible. There's so much life—

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Nahema

Life sustained by its own rot. It's a pyramid scheme.

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Sophie

Nahema, we have to build a colony HERE. You know Twinkle's secret. Nobody's coming to save us. How do we complete the mission if the coral gardens are dying?

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Nahema

Did you think I just meant the coral gardens?

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