“We can always go back and see.”
“No,” she said with a sigh. “It was just a dream. This is our world now.”
Royan slipped his arm around her waist. “Shall we take a look around?”
The image of a planet seen from space filled her mind, strange continents, deep oceans dotted with long island chains, and large dazzling white polar caps. She had always adored the recordings of Earth’s ice-bound continent, ruing the fact she would never see it.
Exploring this planet would take a lifetime. The two of them would do it together, alone, and free of any obligations. The way it could never be on Earth.
“Sounds good,” she said.
They started to walk along the beach towards the headland. After a minute, the nanoware organisms stirred themselves, and began to slither dutifully after them.
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