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Myali nodded to Dunn. "Yes, I agree. We'll have at least a full day after their arrival."
"Will that be enough?" Kadir asked.
"If we 're ready," Myali answered. "We have eight years to prepare."
"Ah," he said as he rose, "eight years. It took Jerome eight years to pen up the Mus.h.i.+n and free our people. If such a thing-as that is possible, surely this is, too. Come, Josh, we have things to discuss."
As the two of them left, Myali and Dunn fell silent. For many minutes, quiet pervaded everything.
Then, as the sun eased itself beneath the wall of the 'hood and covered them born in shadow, the air was filled with the evening song of a lizard.
They listened, their eyes finding each other. As the last notes died away, Dunn smiled. "Why does the lizard sing?" he asked softly.
Myali smiled back. "We walk in new places."
"Then let us walk slowly."
"Yes. Slowly."
"And for a long time."
"Yes. A long time."
Her eyes drifted up toward the sky. Two moons were just becoming visible. "They will come," she sighed.
He nodded, looking up too. "They will come."
"And then will the universe be ours, Dunn?"
He reached out with his right hand and covered her left where it lay on her thigh.
"It already is, Myali."
