Foresight in the less fun parts of Kith
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Daz looks confused about the fish burial but obviously can't ask.

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Margaret doesn't know how to mime the concept of fertilizer, but she points at the plants and mimes them getting bigger. 

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Shrug.

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Likewise shrug.

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The next days and weeks see the development of something of a routine. Margaret catches and cooks more fish; the crops of peanuts and various berries take to the local soil acceptably and start supplementing her arms as a food source; the three of them deliberately keep their sleep schedules out of sync.

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After Sovi and Daz have observed her farming-related behavior for a couple of weeks, Margaret will discover a fourth person, hard at work in the garden, when she wakes up.

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Margaret's been bugging Sovi for a few words of the local language now and then, but she's sufficiently surprised and still-waking-up that she ends up saying "Hello?" in English.

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"Hello," says the new person, who appears to be a woman. (Sovi and Daz are asleep cuddled up under a tree.) "I'm Kiray."

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"Oh, you do speak English! I'm Margaret. Are you, um, new? Or another stranded Earthling?"

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"I'm new. Sovi made me."

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"Ah. Well, pleased to meet you. Thanks for helping with the garden. Um, tell me about yourself?"

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"I'm here to help with the garden."

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"So are you inherently really good at gardening, then? I'm still not totally clear on how this works."

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"I'm as good at gardening as Sovi could make me."

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"Can you teach me stuff?"

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"I can try, but I'm not sure how much you know."

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"I'm mostly guessing. I know that plants need water and sunlight and nutrients in the soil, and that rotting stuff can provide the nutrients, and that it's a good idea to rotate which crops you grow in a given field from year to year."

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"I know those things and a few more. You can work with me if you like."

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"Great. I between us we can figure out a lot of stuff." 

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She resumes de-rocking the ground around some of the plants. "Why didn't you make a gardener yourself?"

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"I've never made anybody and I'm worried I'd do it wrong. That I'd make a person and they'd be unhappy, or sick somehow, or wish I had made them differently."

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"Oh. Sovi's never made a person either before me."

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"Sure, but she was made herself and probably understands it better than I do. I guess if she did a really good job maybe it's easier than it looks?"

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"I seem all right so far."

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"You do! You seem like a really cool person. Which might mean it's easy or might mean it's a good thing Sovi made you instead of me." Shrug.

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