Holy roller, Part 2

"And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not," Haddon responds to the passing Vollistan. "What better way for a captain to catch up on the sort of chatter that doesn't filter up in memos ... oh, wait, that's right. We don't *have* memos." He takes another sip of coffee from the Making Life Better Embryonix mug and then glances toward Sohaeyz. A faint smile, then: "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. Who am I to tarnish the palette of vocabulary?" The smile fades. The coffee finds his mouth once more.