About this story
You play Van, the sociologist of the three, who wants to understand the place while one companion wants to conquer it and the other to worship it. A hundred and twenty chapters of being asked, patiently and in good faith, to explain your own world — and failing.
Who you’ll meet
Ellador, Celis and Alima.
How it opens
The prepared books of notes, copied records, photographs, and city views were lost; memory alone remained for this account.
No map here marks the country's position. Missionaries, traders, and land-hungry expeditions must not be directed to it.
Terry NicholsonYears alter circumstances, but I doubt they have made any of us less ready to contradict the other two.
I remember the talk of college memory.
Terry NicholsonI can be exact about college memory; beyond that, I would rather wait.
Choose
I accept your account of college memory.
Do not build too much on college memory.