Teru of Leopard Hill is wealthy and important, as is obvious from the fact that her clothing is dyed and she is wearing a necklace.
She knew when she stepped out of the city gate today that she was taking a risk. She even knew that she was taking a risk of being kidnapped specifically.
But kidnapped to another planet? Yeah, that wasn't anywhere in her threat model.
She walks away.
She lets herself have a horrible sobbing breakdown that evening, and then tells everyone it didn't happen.
She works. She saves up.
She asks her "long-lost friend" how to buy passage to Vladivostok.
"Why Vladivostok? I assume you can find a flight on the internet but I don't know which airline, if that's what you mean."
" - well that's a question for someone who pays more attention than me to computers. Though I guess I pay more attention than you! Where have you been? The internet is - all the computers are connected to it and you can log onto it and read the news, or watch videos of peoples' cats, or share pictures on Facebook."
Pictures of people's cats. That's so frivolous. A society with the ability to share pictures between machines would share pictures of... of... enemy troop movements? New inventions? A queen's new dress? ...Is this how Tinder works?
There was a question in there. Right. "I've been in Sesat, south of Iral, and got a little lost and found myself here - actually, I'm not completely sure which airport is best to fly into to get back, but I was told Vladivostok might be closer than here."
"I've never heard of any of those places but I guess if they're in Russia then yeah, Vladivostok is a decent start."
"That's what I was thinking, yeah. Do you happen to know anyone who knows how you'd go about making an internet if you didn't have one?"
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