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

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well.

Welcome to the fourth story for the month of January 2021, issue 172.

How are you holding up? I hope you're doing okay. I hope that as we continue to meet this new year that life at some point in the next year will return to some semblance of normalcy.

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So this story is titled The Last Civilian and is by R.P. Sand.

R.P. Sand is a theoretical physicist turned scientific advisor for literature and film, science

communicator, and writer of speculative fiction. Cats, coffee, cosplay, and colorful socks are a few of her favorite things.

You can find her at her website r.P.Sand.com,

and if you like what you hear, you can go back to September 2020 for Ask the Fireflies. So my dear listener I hope you can sit back relax and let me tell you a story.

You on the day of your birth, you blink into existence and the first thing you hear is, we are at war with the Ullai. The Ullai must be eliminated.

Well, here is an understatement for the sentiment as injected through multiple channels, auditory,

visual, synaptic. These words are your prime truth. You are carte blanche, but for a moment there's an urgency to the stream of information swallowed by your neurons.

The topology of the crashed Starship turned station, comprehension of the fur-feeathered locals, the terrain of Ullulia.

Your assignment, your stream is that of infantry, your expertise, melee, and stances strikes and parries from the up-reared

cobra clears veranda intimidation posture to the fluidic falcon feather rides a

wind avoidance of blows you are of the sixth generation, so you are called

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