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His English was quite fluent. He had been one of Santa's elves as a boy and then was transferred to New Year's Island as a waiter and part-time gigolo. "It was not so bad," he said, then, "It was bad," and then, his high-cheek-boned, expressive face crinkling into a laugh, "but not very-very bad. Only the food was very-very bad."
Esmo So Mu described his world: hundreds of islands, many with a population of only a family or two, scattered out over the ocean "forever." People traveled from island to island in catamarans. "Everybody go visit all the time," he said.
The Great Joy Corporation had concentrated population in one archipelago and forbidden sailing in or out of that area. "Burn boats," Esmo So Mu said briefly.
He had been born on an island south of Islands and was now living there again. "Lots more money if I stay to work at the hotel," he said