Chapter Eleven
If she’d seen the new planetside clinic in another setting, Cariad realized, she might have thought it was part of a refugee camp. Yet compared to the general state of the settlement it was one of the better-looking constructions. Although the aliens’ bombardment had set the settlement ablaze, the fire hadn’t consumed everything due to the fire-retardant nature of the building materials. It had been the tsunami that had caused the most damage. As time had gone on the colonists had removed more of the deposited mud, uncovering remains of buildings they were using to construct more robust dwellings, including the clinic.
If there was one thing the Gens knew how to do, it was to build. In just a few hours they’d made a room with a roof that reliably kept out the rain, and add
