human
You know what this place is? It's a ghetto. A self-imposed ghetto. Starmen are scared silly of going out into the Earther cities, so they keep themselves penned up in this filthy place instead.
gpt
This place is really old. I wonder how far back those run-down buildings date.
human
Thousand years, maybe more. No one ever bothers to build new ones. What for? The starmen don't mind living in the old ones.
gpt
I almost wish the medical clearance hadn't come through after all,
human
How so?
gpt
Then we'd be still quarantined up there. We wouldn't be able to come down and get another look at the kind of place this really is.
human
I don't know which is worse--to be cooped up in quarantine or to go wandering around a dismal hole like the Enclave. Alan stood up, stretched, and took a deep breath.
gpt
Phew! Get a lungful of that sweet, fresh, allegedly pure Terran air! I'll take ship atmosphere, stale as it is, any time over this smoggy soup.
human
I'll go along with that. Say, look--a strange face!