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€œIf it sounds like she’s converting you,” Summer said, “I’m going to shoot.”īran said, “We need to know first, or you may be killing Mum.” Try to figure out how much of her is left.”īran said, “I’ll hold off using the box until we know, to save juice.”īran figured if they used all the energy stored from their solar panels and turbine, they could charge the box for about ten minutes. Then, Bran asked, “What are you going to do?’ Both had a clear view of the patio.Ī pause. Bran was closer to hand, in the attic of the cottage, from where he could activate the Yadaraf Box with the remote. Summer was monitoring from the lookout, watching Olwen’s approach. “Testing.”Ī crackle of static, then: “You guys sound like kids playing army.” And it was a good decoy: its presence obscured the thing they really wanted to hide—the Yadaraf Box, mounted beneath the table, just in front of his knees. They’d experimented with hiding it but it needed to be in the open to pick up their voices. He reached for the handheld radio in front of him on the table, made sure it was on. Now he felt on the cusp of his most important performance.

They had found moments—even if some of those moments were partially an act, a performance. Maintaining a relationship after the end of the world was not easy. He remembered taking these measures on more typical nights, when the stakes weren’t so high, when he’d hoped they could just grab a little time together, once the kids were down, and they were both tired, or melancholy, or outright depressed. He’d poured the wine to let it breathe, and sat waiting, hoping. So he’d dressed in a familiar shirt, uncorked a bottle of their homemade dandelion wine, and brought out the short bodega tumblers they’d bought in Tarragona on their honeymoon. If she’d been converted, he thought using memory triggers might help bring her back to herself. The table was set just as it would have been when he and Olwen had evenings together. So return to that galaxy far, far away, and prepare yourself for what happens when the Force awakens.Two hours later, Alan sat at the patio table, alone.

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