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T this point it starts to get a little nasty. And all after the return initially seemed to have gone so well, too.
Being a mediator of a dispute between members of an alien species-especiaaly one unaccustomed to such disputes, and therefore mediation of them-isn't an easy task or one without risk.
Trouble among the Edenites. Meiersdottir is enlisted to help them with their problem-or, really, to solve it for them. The Eden natives haven't got that far with social interactions, which are of course new to them.
Well, it seems that "thinking together" doesn't preclude internecine strife among the Edenites. Now the problem has been dumped squarely in the humans' laps-specifically. in Meiersdottir's-for resolution. An unexpected development in the human return to the planet.
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