"A hungry man will enjoy anything. A very hungry man
will consider even canned goods to be ambrosia." But by that time the
serving bowl had gotten around to George, and he stopped to fill his
own plate.
16: A Dark Spirit
TO STARMAN David Foster, it was a soft, rainy morning. He had just
awakened after a night on the SE supply asteroid O344, and the only
sound was the faint hum of the operating system. He wrapped himself a
little more snugly into his blanket and kept his eyes shut. His
imagination easily turned the murmur into the soft sound of rain
sifting through the leaves of the tree outside his bedroom window on
his uncle's farm in West Virginia. With slightly more effort he could
imagine a drizzle drumming lightly on the wooden shingles above and
drifting out onto the empty fields in the early autumn days shortly
after harvest.
His Uncle Francis and Aunt Clare were dear to David. Although he had
been raised on the Moon, close to his father's work, he had been born
in Clark's Bridge Crossing, the village near their farm. From the time
he was old enough to show any notice of the world around him, David had
loved the stars. Even now, he loved interplanetary travel, exploration,
and adventure better than anything, but in his heart was an
emotionally-intense place where he kept his memories of the West
Virginia farm where he had spent so much of his childhood.
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