We call each place by the old names, then start building stuff − exactly as before, only nicer. And that’s most of what we have here: hope for better things.

Luckily, the locals are always super helpful. If we can just make them more like us, well, life will be perfect.

Robert Keal loves telling stories and would like to have been born in a time when sharing them around the campfire was commonplace (only, you know, without all the predatory megafauna).