We ate and fucked, just as the heroes of the fairy tales probably did, only that being for children we couldn’t say so explicitly, but they certainly did it too. When I was in the shuttle it was Pauline, but here is Eve.”
An inquisitive, inquisitive claw was again searching my memory minutes that seemed interminable I saw Pauline begin to move slightly, and her legs bent at that impossible angle straightened as if of their own accord. So the red dust and boulders around me began to turn into what you see… I opened my eyes and looked at the surreal landscape around me. Put the river back!”
“Eve asked me puzzled.”
“The same way you’ve taken it out!”
She closed her eyes and after only a few moments the river reappeared and was now much wider and richer in water. The terra-forming module, which had its own resistance capsule, was crushed, and the seeds and embryos we were to put in the incubators were also scattered in the red dust between the rocks.
