Wyoming Knott, apparently—chairman stepped back and let Shorty introduce her as a "brave little girl who’s come all the way from Hong Kong Luna to tell how our Chinee comrades cope with situation"—and choice of words showed that he had never been there. . . not surprising; in 2075, HKL tube ended at Endsville, leaving a thousand kilometers of maria to do by rolligon bus, Serenitatis and part of Tranquillitatis—expensive and dangerous. I’d been there—but on contract, via mail rocket.