You are listening to a Clarksfield magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings, Clarksville citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well. Welcome to the

fifth story for the month of November, issue 218. I hope that these stories have been treating

you extraordinarily well. I hope you've enjoyed all of our past stories. And because of your support,

we can continue to ring you more. So thank you if you've gone to patreon.com,

forward slash Clarksworld or Clarksworld Citizens.com or bought a subscription. Your generosity and

support, make sure that we can continue to do this each and every month. Our story is titled Duty of Care and is by E.N. Auslander.

E.N. Auslander has written a few stories.

Some of them are considered pretty decent for being written by a marmoset.

That's not to say that E.N. Alselanda is a marmoset afraid of admitting he's a marmoset and being shunned by both humans and the marmoset community, but he isn't saying that either.

His stories aren't about marmoset, mostly.

So with that said, I hope you can sit back, relax.

And let me tell you a story. Rule number one,

Eki will ensure the safety, security, and health of all humans, and will do what is necessary to determine the most expedited path towards civilizational evolution.

The universe shines brilliantly in the sky when the atmosphere crunches under one's feet.

Asher, I have not yet received new telemetry from the tower.

Eke's voice scratched in from the suit's comms unit.

Please insert the power module.

Sorry, Ikeye, just admiring the view.

Asher enabled his suit torches before taking his eyes off the endless night sky and placing

the utility case on the frozen ground.

The tower's operations panel had been dented and punctured by meteors, and without an atmosphere to slow them down, the planet's

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