From the corner of her eye Glynn caught sight of the ship leaving port, and turned to watch as it passed the Waterdancer; a small vessel with fluttering yellow pennants, turning neatly into the wind. She wondered where it was bound. Then someone began to beat a wild tattoo, announcing their intention to land.
Fermata
It was late, but at the Pole, the sun shone endlessly in a white night. A young seal drowsed on a narrow shelf. Soon it must find food to fill its shrunken belly, but for the moment it was warm. It was content with this, though the world was utterly changed. Its mother had vanished, to be replaced by a luminous sky from which shone a warm bright eye.
High above, beyond the glowing horizon, and above the earth’s envelope of oxygen, a comet flew.
Only one watched, and waited to see what would come.
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