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You are the only person in a Laputian ore camp on the Earth's surface who speaks the language of the river people downstream, and they have just cut half the camp's water. The ore ship lifts at noon and your commander needs the channel open before then. At dawn a river envoy climbs the bank to deliver terms, and he knows your face.

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Faringale is a Remainer resource camp on the Earth's surface, one hundred forty Laputians in a valley the toxin maps show clean. It has a smelter, a landing field, and a Lightning emplacement on the ridge that has never been fired. Commander Sarrit Hollin runs the camp under palace orders to hold the valley. The river people downstream number several thousand and control the channel that feeds the camp's water. Laputa considers the surface unclaimed. The river people do not know this. You were born in a river village and carried up to Laputa as a child on a survey ship after a fever season, one of thirty surface orphans the palace raised for their languages. You have been Hollin's surveyor for six months because you are the only one in camp who speaks river-tongue. Two days ago the river people cut half the channel. Yesterday Hollin received a palace order: if the channel is not restored by the ore ship's departure, fire the Lightning at the empty hillside above their nearest town a...

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adventure, custom, creatures:constructs, post-apocalyptic:post-apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic:climate-catastrophe, fantasy-magic:high-fantasy, tone-atmosphere:utopian, environment:floating-islands, target-audience:neutral, lang:en