Island in a Sea of Stars
“They played games. Garrison told Seth about Roamer history, about other planets they would someday see. He knew they couldn’t stay here forever, and he had to decide what to do next, where they would go, what new life they would make. Although the knot in his stomach didn’t go away, it loosened a little.
The strange bloaters drifted around them, occasionally sparkling, moving onward like slumbering space jellyfish.
They were cut off from all communication, and he prayed that his concerns about the Sheol lava-processing operations were exaggerated. He would rather be proved wrong. But if nothing happened, Elisa would insist that his alarms were paranoid irresponsibility, and that he had willfully stolen her son. Garrison knew his wife could be vindictive if she wanted to be—and after what he had done, she would definitely want to be.
He remained alert, keeping watch out the windowports of his ship, observing the odd nodules as they shifted around. The things were beautiful and exotic.
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