Blip was gazing absently at her reader, nursing a bowl of hot cereal and some tea. She didn't really feel like starting the day. The weather was a bit gloomy and so was she. The "colony" DPIP told her she'd be managing turned out to be a somewhat rudimentary and ill-stocked outpost with, at the moment, a single colonist. Rashi was a tsabhua, and was clever and curious and eager to research. But she was also apparently ill-liked at the station for being a bit oblivious, relentlessly ent...