“But what happened to those things? Snow, and the rest of it?”
“Climate Control. Snow made growing food difficult, limited the agricultural periods.
And unpredictable weather made transportation almost impossible at times.
It wasn’t a practical thing, so it became obsolete when we went to Sameness.
“And hills, too,” he added. “They made conveyance of goods unwieldy. Trucks; buses. Slowed them down. So—”
He waved his hand, as if a gesture had caused hills to disappear. “Sameness,” he concluded.
Jonas frowned. “I wish we had those things, still. Just now and then.”
The old man smiled. “So do I,” he said. “But that choice is not ours.”
“But sir,” Jonas suggested, “since you have so much power—” The man corrected him.
“Honor,” he said firmly. “I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.”
“Lie quietly now. Since we’ve entered into the topic of climate, let me give you something else.
And this time I’m not going to tell you the name of it, because I want to test the receiving.
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