Space for Evolution by Zurab Andguladze

Author:Zurab Andguladze [Andguladze, Zurab]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zurab book
Published: 2021-04-11T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 56

After the colonists had made that day’s decision, Em got up and, leaving the center of the settlement that was illuminated by electric light, headed to the river. He walked past the last house and approached the edge of the plateau. Here he raised his head and looked at the cloudless sky.

There, surrounded by stars, Seler hovered in the company of Tail. Sated in his view of the celestial bodies, he averted his look from the heavens and lowered it down. Here before his sight the neighborhood appeared, illuminated by the giant planet. It was as if the yellow rays of the night luminary covered the buildings, plantations in the north, a corn field in the south and the forest beyond them, with a golden patina.

The next moment the young man noticed a moving red dot in the north—a signal diode of the RA-5 or the RB-5.At these times, after the construction of the HPP, only one task remained to them—the night patrol of the colony. They walked around the perimeter of the extended living area, which comprised the residential buildings, a cattle pen, a bird yard, and beehives.

Having enjoyed the view, he descended a little bit down the hill and sat on the grass. In the surrounding silence the rustle and splash of the great river could be heard. Earlier, apart from this, nothing had disturbed the night’s calm, but now, when a rivulet, which they called Electro, was flowing inside of a narrow gutter, its flutter also added to the whisper of the river. Soon, the sound of approaching footsteps was joined to the duo of water currents.

“Do you also think of the three?” asked the newcomer.

“Why, we have already decided what to do, ’have not we, Bame?” Em, a muscular young man with chestnut colored hair and massive features, said without turning his head.

“Did you hear what I was interested in after supper?” His interlocutor answered with a question.

“It seems that you mentioned some uncertainty, but I do not remember, I was in my own thoughts,” Em said, and looked at his interlocutor at last.

“I tried to say that perhaps we have reached the age when the rules do not determine our whole life, but so far no one has realized this. This is not surprising, as I myself only realized this today,” Bame explained.

“What did you realize? I do not understand.” Em stared at his comrade’s poorly lit face.

Meanwhile, the latter squatted beside him. “I said that most of us will soon have a mate, but some will remain alone.”

Em shrugged and said calmly, “That is not news. Why are you telling me this?”

“You and I now live in the same house, and therefore we often communicate with each other more than with the others, so I will share my guess with you, and my plan.”

By saying ‘now’ Bame meant that, starting at the age of fifteen, the colonists had changed houses every hundred and fifty days. The draw determined who would live in which house, and with whom.

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