Bzup had provided seats for the humans, and they had talked for some hours now in the great hall beneath the bowl of alien stars. Well...alien, save for one bright dot, making its way slowly along the lines that tied the stars together.
A ship from Earth.
"They were bound to find a way back," Til said, his voice hushed but somehow still sounding amazed, as he glanced again at the bright dot. "It took them three centuries, two lifetimes...but they're coming back."
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