by Ben Bova
“Yes.” And I knew it was so. I meant it with every atom of my being.
“And I love you, too, Orion. I always have and I always will.”
“But I’m leaving soon.”
“I know.”
Past her shoulder, I could see through the restaurant’s window all the gaudy crescent of Saturn hanging low on the horizon, the thin line of its rings slicing through its bulging middle. Higher up, the sky of Titan was its usual dull orange overcast. The starship was parked in orbit up there, waiting for us to finish our final preparations and board it.
“We’ll be gone for twenty years,” I said.
“To the Sirius system, I know.”
“It’s a long voyage.”
“Not as long as some we’ve already made, Orion,” she said, “or others that we will make someday.”
“What do you mean?”
“I’ll explain it during the voyage.” She smiled again. “We’ll have plenty of time to remember everything then.”
My heart leaped in my chest. “You’re going too?”
“Of course,” she laughed. “We have endured the collapse and rebirth of the universe, Orion. We have shared many lives and many deaths. I’m not going to be separated from you now.”
“But I haven’t seen you at any of the crew briefings. You’re not on the list of…”
“I am now. We will journey out to the stars together, my beloved. We have a long and full lifetime ahead of us. And perhaps even more than that.”
I leaned across the table and kissed her lips. My loneliness was ended, at last. I could face anything in the world now. I was ready to challenge the universe.
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