Heirs of Earth
“Sol understood those apprehensions well, and as she faced her third sunset on the ancient regolith of Luna, she couldn’t help but wonder if humanity would ever stop holding its breath in anticipation of death striking once again from the skies.“You okay, Sol?”She glanced over to where the barely visible shimmer that was Lucia Benck’s new body stood. If she looked above the north horizon she would have seen the golden gleam of the orphaned spindle from which Lucia was conducting her part of the ...conversation.Sol nodded, smiling. “I was thinking of that carbon disk Peter found in 53 Aquarius,” she half-lied. “The one that you—that one of your engrams—left behind. Do you know what it said?”“I had a list of quotes,” said the former scout pilot. “Was it Noël Coward? ‘Why, oh why do the wrong people travel, when the right ones stay at home?’ “Sol laughed at this, and realized as it lasted just how good it felt. “Actually, I think it was Wordsworth.”“Ah, yes,”MoreLess
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