Solaris Rising


It's a terrible and beautiful thing I've done.

I suppose I already had it in mind, when the last uplink came in. Not that I'd come close to voicing the possibility to myself. If I'd been honest about the course I was on, I might well have requested immediate committal to stasis.

The right thing to do, in hindsight. And maybe we'd be on our way home now, back to the gratitude of a thousand worlds. Our house would have crumbled into the sea by the time we got back. But we could always have built ...
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Published on October 26, 2011 06:20
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