MISC: The Girl Who Saved the World Part 64

[George Phillies]

> Today's Topics:
>
>     1. Re: MISC: The Girl Who Saved the World Part 64 (Scott Eiler)
>
>
> I do miss seeing my friends, but travel is just out at the moment. I
> especially wish I could commiserate with poor Teranike. She’s trapped
> here. The gate between our worlds has been closed. Her country is what
> we call Antarctica, except on her world Antarctica is Polaria, a cold
> temperate rainforest, thanks to really different ocean currents, an
> extra continent in the Pacific, and a land bridge between Antarctica and
> South America. In any event, Polaria has been invaded by most of the
> rest of the world, their air defenses were betrayed by their Minister of
> the Skies, and they are fighting back gallantly if not very
> successfully, Apparently the Air Minister had been promised he would
> rule as colonial potentate, took the offer, and got caught. The Polarian
> legal doctrine is ‘treason is a hereditary disease’ so they executed his
> children and grandchildren, too, but they are still losing.
>
> This is the sort of stuff I used to put in sidebars.  This one is indeed
> interesting.  So now I ask:  Can it affect the story?
Eclipse has a friend who is in considerable pain -- her country is being 
invaded by the rest of the world, and she is not there to help -- and 
Eclipse has no obvious way to help her. Eclipse finds the situation to 
be unpleasant.