little too immediately, perhaps, don’t you think? You haven’t had much experience, Raoul, so you might not be aware it usually isn’t as easy as this.”
Cyril flung himself down on one of the cots that had been especially hardened for Terrestrial use and blew smoke rings at the ceiling. Skkiru was dying for a cigarette himself, but that was another cultural feature the Snaddrath had to dispense with now—not that smoking was insufficiently primitive, but that tobacco was not indigenous to the planet.
“That is because they are not a hostile people,” Raoul insisted. “Apparently they have no enemies. Nonetheless, they are of the utmost interest. I hardly expected to land a society like this on my very first field trip,” he added joyfully. “Never have I heard of so dynamic a culture! Never!”
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