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    Bondmate
    Bondmate
    Bondmate
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    Bondmate

    By Angela B. Mortimer

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    Early pre-metal Earths like VFH330 are the most difficult to keep on track. When Frasina discovers that her anthropologist predecessor still hasn't raised the local hunter/gatherers to the level of basic metallurgy after his 30-year stint, she is determined to surpass his efforts. With the help of her team, she instructs the local tribes how to smelt copper. Then, when all the clans have mastered the methodology, she must teach them to mix in additives like tin to make their metal spear and arrowheads last longer. All goes well until a newly acquired satellite system locates an area where the natives are more highly developed and are using stone to build city structures. These people are a very different from the primitive hunter/gathers, whose lack of personal hygiene is difficult for a Varan to cope with; and Frasina, always curious, wonders if the rumours of cross-culture mating might be true.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAngela B. Mortimer
    Release dateAug 21, 2019
    ISBN9780463031049
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    Angela B. Mortimer

    Born in the UK, married a gorgeous Aussie and have been living happily here ever since. Attended West of England college of art. Love reading sci-fi, fantasy and my fav subjects like genetics, planet sciences, philosophy, history - especially ancient, and of course space. I dreamt of being an astronaut. I've been writing since I could and painting for as long.I love the outdoors and gazing at the stars and wondering what might be out there.

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      Bondmate - Angela B. Mortimer

      Bondmate

      Chapter 1

      ‘That was a marvellous presentation, do you agree?’ Calos asked sincerely.

      ‘Oh wonderful,’ agreed Crysana sarcastically. ‘And so much information in such a short lecture.’

      ‘I’m dizzy from the journey through time,’ said a voice from behind. ‘Marvellous? Calos are you serious?’

      ‘Yes.’

      ‘You’re exaggerating as usual Frasina,’ said Crysana laughing, ‘or is there something wrong with your headset.’

      ‘Nothing is wrong with me; it’s the frantic speed of the sub-councillor's earth forming presentation. In such a hurry too, it’s a slow, slow business taking a large piece of rock, and turning it into a planet. Slow, slow business.’ Her voice drawled.

      ‘Can’t you ever be serious?’ asked Calos, irritated by his cousin.

      ‘It’s why you both love me so much. We should stop trying to be gods and try to find our roots, our very early history is non-existent.’ Frasina said condescendingly.

      ‘Now who’s being obsessive, no one takes that road because it leads nowhere.’ Crysana always took the popular view.

      ‘No sense of adventure either of you, you’ll be perfect together.’

      ‘Frasina!’ Crysana tried to appear shocked.

      ‘Stop pretending, you’re perfect for each other so don’t go coy on me. You won’t wed until you get back from your Earth stint, but I bet you’ll marry as soon as you do.’

      ‘Well, it is for Varan,’ a defensive Crysana said.

      ‘I don’t care if it is for Varan, I’m not getting married, and I’m excelling at everything instead. I won’t come home and vegetate.’

      ‘You will change your mind, you like Camune?’ her friend insisted.

      ‘I didn’t say I wouldn’t have lovers did I?’

      ‘It isn’t long until our offers,’ said Crysana changing the subject, ‘What if we get separated?’

      ‘I won’t go without you,’ Calos said heroically.

      ‘But you must, I’ll wait for you.’

      ‘I know Crysana.’

      ‘Oh, you two are so in love,’ Frasina smiled.

      ‘Wait until it happens to you,’ said Calos smiling back at her, ‘it will.’

      ‘I told you about the life I want.’

      ‘To remain after your first service date, because you excel at everything?’ Her cousin looked serious, how could anyone not want to come home to Varan.

      ‘I’m top of the class,’ Frasina saw no flaw in her plans.

      ‘Yes, but you’ll be competing with the whole of Varan, not just our school.’ Crysana had argued the same before, but as usual, Frasina wasn’t listening to sense.

      ‘Sub-Councillor Seren says I’ve potential,’ she put up her chin.

      ‘He thinks you are pretty,’ Crysana said in a quiet voice, ‘and he’s not married.’

      ‘He’s older than my eldest brother.’

      ‘Not too old,’ pointed out her friend. ‘Now don’t lose your temper; you tease us ‒ so stop sulking.’

      ‘I’m not,’ Frasina insisted.

      They came to a winery and Calos stopped, ‘I hear the new spring wine is in from Palopen.’

      ‘You go ahead. I have an idea I want to chase up, but you can bring me a tube home with you.’ She followed the path to the library.

      ‘I love my cousin, but I’m glad you’re different,’ said Calos.

      ‘I hope you’re not saying I’m stupid?’

      ‘No, you are smarter than you admit to, but Frasina is so full on she makes me yearn for the solitude of the Megana Gardens.’

      ‘Liar, you love her as much as I do. I’d hate it if they split us up.’

      ‘If we do well enough, they will try to keep us together. When you’re off-world you need people around who understand you, it helps with homesickness.’

      Frasina loved Calos and Crysana, although sometimes she wanted to shake them. Perfect Varan and they would have many perfect children. Her mother said she was different, and that good woman kept telling her too exuberant daughter she would do well too. Clever Frasina and her family were proud of her. A possibility she’d make sub-councillor or higher, and she had the drive to do it.

      As soon as she entered the historic library, she relaxed. She loved the old building and searching through ancient data. Few showed interest in dateless histories and its fascinating gaps, and why wasn’t the old knowledge transferred to the new systems? Every time they introduced another change, more information disappeared, and she was determined once she made councillor, she’d organise a committee for retrieval of lost evidence. She researched The Contraceptive Wars, and what led to it. If the ancient priests had their way, Varan would be a used up world and not full of gardens and wilderness areas, but cities everywhere and food manufactured from chemicals. Old stories and myths suggested it happened to their first home,

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