The Abandoned Luna's Return
he asked.
"We 'Merged' the partitions, Silas," I said, falling into his arms. "The Earth is the Shroud. The Shroud is Mars. There’s no more 'Management'. There’s only us."
But as I looked toward the horizon, where the sun—a real, Martian sun—was rising, I saw a single, golden pod descending from the sky.
It was the "Escape-Pod" from the Mothership.
And as it touched down in the middle of the new garden, the door hissed open.