(Kiri describes where she comes from which is the family home in the mountains of Sirius at about 8,500 feet above sea level. We get into the difference in beauty between here and Sirius ending on how her and others on the base like Tia trade their services in exchange for their lifestyle on the base.) 

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Linda M: does it look very pretty where you.....?

Kiri: yes it does, I come from the high mountain areas which is probably a little bit higher than your area. Your area is…..

Russ: 6,500 feet is about where we're at right now.

Kiri: yeah I’m used to growing up at about a quarter as high again which would be….

Russ: about 8,500.

Kiri: uh-huh.

Linda M: oh.

Kiri: yeah, so down there where you guys are is lowland for me. The best way to describe me is I'm a high-altitude chick.

Linda M: (laughs) that’s cool.

Kiri: uh-huh.

Russ: yeah they come…..their home on Sirius is very beautiful, it's a very lovely area in the mountains.

Kiri: uh-huh.

Linda M: I would like that.

Kiri: it’s a lot of fun.

Linda M: why can’t we have a pretty place like that?

Kiri: you do, it’s out there. It’s not…..I wouldn’t call it home but it is beautiful. Beautiful is what you think it is.

Linda M: yeah you got that right.

Kiri: uh-huh, somebody can look out over a area full of different colored lights and go that’s beautiful. And they can come up to somewhere like you have down there and say, "ughh, look at all that yellow stuff in the air" (the pollen from the pines) "God, it’s cold." "Oh, I don’t like that smell" or, "I don’t like this, that’s not beautiful" but yet they look on something that they see all these lights……

Linda M: that's it, yeah.

Kiri: and it’s all perception.

Linda M: uh-huh.

Kiri: I personally would say that the lights is beautiful to look at but not to live in.

Linda M: I agree.

Kiri: so it’s all a matter of perception.

Linda M: yeah I don’t like living in all those lights.

Kiri: uh-huh.

Linda M: it only attracts bugs.

Kiri: yeah, well bugs can be beautiful.

Linda M: and it’s a drag to have to pay rent.

Kiri: well we pay rent up here in trade.

Linda M: uh-huh?

Kiri: yeah the fact that I do engineer work is my trade.

Linda M: uh-huh.

Kiri: uh-huh, Tia does her political analyst work for Hades Base, that’s her trade.

Linda M: uh-huh.

Kiri: Mark does his ground control, Karra does her or used to do her healing. She's now being supported by the government of Sirius.

Linda M: oh.

Kiri: uh-huh.