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"Yes, we believe that. But he wasn't the only person helping, was he?"

That evening, Peter dreams of a bustling town, full of crowded, dirty men. And they were men -- he could hardly see any women or children. The men wore pants and some of them wore shirts, but most of them didn't. Several ethnicities were represented. The vegetation was lush and tropical -- the vegetation that was left.

Peter woke up naked again. He was still in a tent, but rather than the fancy plastic of the miracle workers, this one used the coarse fabric of canvas. Canvas bags and coarse wooden crates were stacked all over the place. Goliath stood up warily. The temperature was still warm.