UNDER THE DON’S PROTECTION
"In my day, the only things we sent into the sky were spy satellites and kinetic strikers."
"It's a better use of the fuel, Zara," Tunde said, poking the fire with a stick. He looked younger tonight, the firelight smoothing the lines on his face. "I gave them the seeds. The special ones. The ones that can handle the low light."
"I gave them the navigation algorithms," Leo said. "The ones based on the migratory patterns of the humpback whales. If they move like the whales, they’ll never get lost."
I looked at my family—this strange, beautiful collection of survivors. We were the last living link to a dead world, and yet, here we were, providing the foundation for a galaxy of new ones.
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