Even from this distance it seemed immense, as hope should always be. She liked me as I liked her. I thought I heard some sort of echo of my laughter, so I stopped and listened carefully. In all that time we shall eat only milk and honey, so we shall certainly get thirsty after a while. I thought I heard some sort of echo of my laughter, so I stopped and listened carefully. Some appeared to be fig trees, but there were others I couldn’t recognize, though they all seemed laden with fruit. And I had an unpleasant feeling that someone else was reading along with me from my memory that had become a kind of public library. I thought I was dying and having a final dream, so I decided to enhance my dream and wished for a tub of warm, sparkling water. Unlikely that any person would escape without so much as a bruise from such an impact. “Heaven, heaven,” the distant voice whispered again and I shook my head. If the terraforming failed or didn’t fit within predetermined parameters we’d spend our days side by side until we decided otherwise. It was even insistent, somewhere on the edge of pain, but when it stopped I heard a desolate sigh.
