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Salya worked for Structural Authority, in waste management. Aea was a long tube, gravity by rotation, an interior folding over on itself like a blanket. Two million people lived within it. Look up from any point and you saw the other side of the world. Streets, buildings, parks, lakes, people. The living viscera of an organism from which Salya wanted at times to be apart. She understood them in aggregate, but being among them as individuals stressed her. She managed, but it eroded her tolerance. She wanted to find the source of her unassimilated discomfort, expunge the poisons, be part