‘What?’ They stared at him for a long time, as though having finally had the courage to broach the matter they could not now fathom a suitable question with which to begin. ‘Is that planet down there habitable?’ Meyanna asked finally. ‘Somewhere we could live, like Ethera?’ ‘It’s not quite like Ethera,’ the captain replied as he realised what his bridge crew were thinking. ‘But it’s damned close enough, isn’t it?’ Meyanna said. ‘Yes, it’s nearly identical in many ways.’ ‘So we could stay here, right?’ Jerren said. ‘We could stop running and make a new home, right here.’ ‘Perhaps,’ Idris replied, ‘but then what do we bring with us if we try to settle here?’ ‘The Word,’ Meyanna said. The captain nodded, staring at his boots as he did so. ‘But we are all descended from wanderers,’ Jerren insisted. ‘Would it be so difficult to start again here if we are able to defeat the Word?’ ‘Do you remember your history classes, at school?’ he asked the deck, and then looked up at the crew around him.
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