"FWLS6" - читать интересную книгу автора (A Future We'd Like to See)

that you are a Guidereader, part of the Old Sara way of things,
da?"

"I am a Guidereader, yes."

"Right. Guards!" Piskov snapped, and two furry-hat wearing
redclad communists immediately blocked my escape to the left and
right.

"Lock this man away for now," Piskov said. "We can't have
him subverting our ideals and utopian way of life."

*

Of course, the colony did have a jail cell. Normally it was
only used for people who tried to rob a stall or shop. Fraud,
embezzlement, and other such crimes were perfectly acceptable in
that usually the individuals could settle it among themselves by
economical or violent means. And since we did want the criminal
to come back sometime and shop legitimately, the jail cell was
always very clean and hospitable. Much like a hotel room with
bars.

I had spent the last two hours listening to the commotion in
the ring of shops as money was seized from the shopkeepers for
later redistribution. I had heard of this faction of the Saren
people before. Very small, but devot believers in their system.
The only reason why other Sarens didn't ignore them as a mere
quirk in a system that has worked for two hundred years is that
they often would kidnap legitimate businessmen and brainwash them
into the communist way. I knew they had a Major Ringleader
figure, Piskov, but didn't know his name until now.

"So all the money is put into one pile, and the people each
take an even share?" I asked my two guards. I was lucky they
hadn't been ordered not to talk to me, or the boredom might have
killed me. Sure, I had my newly purchased CD2 of music in an
inner pocket of the reversible robe, but nothing to play it in.

"Well, sort ofski," the shorter guard said.

"Ski? You enjoy frozen weather sports?"

"No. It's the Commuspeak Piskov taught us. You just
replace all personal pronouns with 'the people's,' use 'da'
instead of yes and put 'ski' after words occasionally. He says
it's the way to enlightenment."

"Okay, getting back to my question. Why sort of?"