Altar - 2199
"Ready to go, Peanut?"
Samantha Caldwell looked from the life-like reproduction to her father. "Daddy, who is this old man and why do you have his hologram in your office?"
Samantha always asked two questions at a time.
"Honey, that man is Darwin L. Caldwell, III. He was one of your relatives who came here when they were first building this planet."
"Did he do something good, like help people with their homework?"
Samantha was five and had just entered official school. She equated everything with homework. Samantha's father lifted her into his arms and carried her toward the office window. He showed her the vast fields of peanuts and the groves of grapes in the distance.
"They called him Dancey and he was the first man to grow peanuts on this planet over one hundred years ago."
"Oh," she said, with all the wonder of a five year old.
"You can be proud of him, Peanut."
"I am, Daddy. Do you think the next time, he can have them grow pizza?"