ONE

Willy the Whale will whistle and this whale’s will, shall will it all away. Now stop asking me for rhymes.

—Asami (Hadano) Five

Recorded by Cloey in the Joke Phrase Volume

Moon, Date: 2316

The Space Whale Museum looked like a white, ribbed mountain with a craterous hole in it. Sapers had been triggered and disintegrated the wall. The Growth Project children were gathered around the front entrance of the museum to view the charring remnants of a neighboring chip factory, minders herding them so that no one wandered off into the rubble.