Escape Pod2 Dec 2021

Escape Pod 813: A Consideration of Trees

A Consideration of Trees By Beth Cato As a xenoarbitrator, I was accustomed to working with concepts and situations deemed peculiar by most of humanity. Often, though, my own species confounded me most of all. "I fear you misunderstood my advertisement." I stood in Mari Kane's miniscule parlor on Bradbury Orbital Station. My felizard partner, Petey, twitched in his nest atop my silvering crown braids. "I usually mediate between different species. You need a private investigator to look into a suspicious death--" "Rainbow Charm Corporation owns the local investigators. Madam Alameda, you're from off station. I couldn't find any corporate affiliations in your history. You're the independent investigator I want to hire." A pleading note crept into her voice. "I appreciate your confidence in me, but--" "Bradbury Orbital is property of Rainbow Charm." Petey spoke directly into my mind via our neural bond, his four-inch-long body flexing as he hummed in thought. "That's a Thrassi-owned firm. This could be a cultural misunderstanding." "--this still isn't my purview," I finished, speaking aloud to both of them at once. "I study stories, new and old, and use them to bridge misunderstandings between different kinds of lifeforms. If you had a Murkle as your neighbor, for instance, who began screaming nonstop if rain lasted for more than a day, I could explain why and advise the Murkle on more appropriate responses." Honestly, I would have preferred to work with a screaming Murkle about then. Humans had been decisively immoral in every one of my recent jobs--cruel to fellow humans, and other kinds of life, too. Jaded as I felt, I had to wonder what crime her husband had committed to end up dead.

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