Fixer #8

Emily sat for a moment trying to decide on a course of action. Did she approach the woman first, or Juneau? Well, she'd have to get to Nevas 4 and then make the decision.

The trip to Nevas 4 from Terris Minora was easy. The physics were hard, but the jump was easy. Emily had never really understood the principles behind it, but the ease of movement made her job so easy. Do a job, make a jump! No one knew where you were going. She stepped into the float just like back on Earth, but because the distance between Terris Minora and Nevas 4 was so great, she had to take the jump float. It worked on the principles of teleportation. You entered the float, it flew to approximately fourteen miles planetary orbit and then the whole ship was teleported, (picked up and droped) in a fourteen mile planetary orbit around your destination planet. The float flew to the tube station and there you have it, travel that would take hundreds of years in about two hours.

The Nevans were an interesting group of poeople. The original settlers had left Earth when the teleportation jump had been proven successful. Many of them left Earth because of religious and political differences with those around them. The leader/president/guru of Nevas was a man named Redran Joll. Joll was fanatical about personal freedoms. In his world there would be no oppression for differing points of view, there would be openness to to everyone's ideas, there would be no political parties, and if anyone else wanted to lead, they could, although the duties of a leader were nominal on Nevas 4.

Because there wer no rules as to who could come on planet -- that would be discriminatory -- it had become a haven for a collection of interesting law-skirters. Not law-breakers, skirters. Just on the fringes of what was right and what was wrong!

Emily knew that this made her job more difficult because no one felt compelled to offer any kind of information.

Upon her arrival on Nevas 4, she took a horse-drawn cab to her hotel in Mesca. She was staying at the Condes de Mesca, it was an exact replica of the Condes de Barcelona,the luxury hotel in Barcelona, the capitol of the country Catalunya.

The Condes de Mesca was the height of luxury, in a modern decor. The suites were divided into a living area done in shocking blues and greans and a sleeping area of pale gold with red oak accents in the bedstead and the hardwood floor. The view wasn't as lovely as that at the Condes de Barcelona, but it was close.