Tears tried to well up in his eyes, but he suppressed them successfully.
The armored inner airlock door of interstellar exploration vehicle Deepstar 1.5 slid back into its interhull recess and Temujin Krzakwa looked into the brightly lit space that held Brendan Sealock and John Cornwell.
In their mid-forties now, the two had changed only a little, taking on just the faintest patina of middle age. Cornwell was a little thinner. His face seemed to foreshadow a dour gaunt-ness to come, and a few permanent lines had appearedaround his mouth. Sealock seemed the same at first glance, but a very small amount of subcutaneous fat had appeared under his skin and it made his face a little softer. The contours seemed to have smoothed. . . . Tem supposed he must look to them now like some giant bag of ambulatory cellulite. The image amused him.
Sealock held out his hand and said, "Welcome back, asshole. I knew you'd show up."
"Did you really?"
"No. But I always hoped I'd have an opportunity to say that to you." Tem turned to face Cornwell. "What about you? Do you have anything sarcastic saved up?" He shook his head. "I'm afraid not. I'm glad you're here."
"So am I." As they walked up the corridor toward the control room, Tem said, "It was too much." Brendan turned to look at him curiously, read familiar signs, and nodded. "Relationships like that, ones with expectations, usually are."
And John said, "Maybe that's why we're here. I guess this is what I was looking for, after all. Maybe there are worse things than being alive. . . ."There was a program in the machine now, an interesting one. Assembly. End. Go.
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