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"I don't want to discuss my body with a man dressed in a badly planned, overgrown flower garden."
"Women are all dowds here," said Peter. "Tragic but true. Dignity and all that. So are the old men. Only the boys and young men on the prowl are allowed such plumage as this. I think the bright colors are to warn women off. Nothing serious from this lad! Stay to play, or go away. Some such thing. I think Jane chose this city for us solely so she could make me wear these things."
"I'm hungry. I'm tired."
"Which is more urgent?" asked Peter.
"Hungry."
"There are grapes," he offered.
"Which you didn't wash. I suppose that's a part of your death wish."
"On Divine Wind, insects know their place and stay there. No pesticides. Jane assured me."
"There were no pesticides on Path, either," said Wang-mu. "But we washed to clear away bacteria and other one-celled creatures. Amebic dysentery will slow us down."
"Oh, but the bathroom is so nice, it would be a shame not to use it," said Peter. Despite his flippancy, Wang-mu saw that her comment about dysentery from unwashed fruit bothered him.
"Let's eat out," said Wang-mu. "Jane has money for us, doesn't she?"
Peter listened for a moment to something coming from the jewel in his ear.
"Yes, and all we have to do is tell the master of the restaurant that we lost our IDs and he'll let us thumb our way into our accounts. Jane says we're both very rich if we need to be, but we should try to act as if we were of limited means having an occasional splurge to celebrate something. What shall we celebrate?"
"Your bath."
"You celebrate that. I'll celebrate our safe return from being lost in the woods."
Soon they found themselves on the street, a busy place with few cars, hundreds of bicycles, and thousands of people both on and off the glideways. Wang-mu was put off by these strange machines and insisted they walk on solid ground, which meant choosing a restaurant close by. The buildings in this neighborhood were old but not yet tatty-looking; an established neighborhood, but one with pride. The style was radically open, with arches and courtyards, pillars and roofs, but few walls and no glass at all. "The weather must be perfect here," said Wang-mu.