City, white
marble, ruined, one each, almost exactly where Luna's fractured
memories said it would be. Ironically, it was less than 20 kilometers
from the Apollo 11 landing site. How NASA and every
astronomer ever had missed it... and then I reconsidered the
proximity of that lunar lander. Who but my own prejudices said
that they *had*? I hadn't made a survey of astronomical
literature in this timeline; maybe the city was a known anomaly
on the surface...
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
marble, ruined, one each, almost exactly where Luna's fractured
memories said it would be. Ironically, it was less than 20 kilometers
from the Apollo 11 landing site. How NASA and every
astronomer ever had missed it... and then I reconsidered the
proximity of that lunar lander. Who but my own prejudices said
that they *had*? I hadn't made a survey of astronomical
literature in this timeline; maybe the city was a known anomaly
on the surface...
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.