(Second Epoch, Saurian Time) It’s quite a magical night here on Saurius Prime. It reminds me of one of our festival nights in Alexandria — perhaps a summer celebration of a lunar eclipse, with lanterns in the streets and people wandering the boulevards with cups of spiced wine or lemon juice sweetened with honey. Mother would let me stay up very late on such nights. I miss her so much. But I carry her here in my heart. And I am quite far from Alexandria, while Alexandria is quite far from being able to celebrate anything in her streets. The last time I saw those streets, they were on fire. I escaped with my two time-traveling friends, Eli, from Earth’s future, and K’lion, the lizard man — “dinosaur” in Eli’s language — whose home is here on this planet, Saurius Prime. I’m not sure where in the cosmos we are. I’ve tried to map it out with the telescopes that have been provided for me, and though I seem to recognize many of the constellations, I wonder if it’s a trick of my eyes.
