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"Does it? I'm mostly reading it for the poetic style; the author was also a poet but I have read all of her poems."

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"I haven't read much Vulcan poetry," he admits. "The language is beautiful, but the literature tends to dry me out."

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"It was," she says, "a very dry place."

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"So I've heard. I regret not visiting when I had the chance."

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Isabella nods. "It was beautiful."

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"What was it like there?"

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"I didn't spend much time in the wilderness of the place - I was a child, not an explorer, then. But the cities were... It will sound stereotypical to call them 'calm'. But they were. There was an abundance of activity, carried out efficiently and neatly, without fuss or drama. I might have chosen to live there as an adult, if it had still been available then and if my father's people did not, as a group, demonstrate such insularity as regards hybrids."

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"There is that," he agrees.

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"But I am content living as I do."

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"Deep space survey? It must get lonely," he says.

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"There's always subspace communications. My mother requires a conversation on at least a biweekly basis. And I resupply regularly, as I have such a small cargo hold. I am not much given to loneliness over the intervening periods, not with all of the art of all Federation civilization and my own mind to entertain me."

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He laughs and nods.

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"What are you doing hereabouts? I would not expect there to be much in this system to interest anyone but surveyors of one sort or another."

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"Oh... every so often it's nice to get away for a while," he says. "Far away. Just for a few weeks."

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"Away from...?"

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"Everyone and everything?"

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"My apologies for intruding," Isabella says archly.

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"I did send a distress call," he reminds her.

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"And I had the poor manners to be within range to hear it."

They are at the outermost planet; she sets up her scanner.
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Mr. Viteri giggles. He has a pleasing laugh.

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"When you are not away, where do you tend to be?"

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"Earth, mostly. Sometimes other places."

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"Earth is a lovely planet."

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"It is."

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"How did you learn Vulcan?"

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