Nita, perhaps out of naivete, had presumed that Azmuth's preference for 'going without' was some kind of pragmatism - something he did because he had to. That it might also sometimes be the best way to do things for everyone hadn't quite settled in as a concept yet.

She finished with her own latest bout of analysis, thanked the last group of 'subjects', and turned to her mentor.

"The word they keep using in the Speech to describe the sunlight in this area is 'adequate'; I think they mean it as praise...? They use a different word for the soil and water. But the foliage here do all like each other, so overall I'd rank it as well-functioning for an ecosystem."

Was that what Azmuth had meant? Had she missed something in her survey?

"I have more of the numerics on the datapad, if you wanted to view those as well..."