Under Two Moons by Louisa Locke

Author:Louisa Locke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Louisa Locke

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Mynyddamore

Afternoon, April 16, 167 AA

“My dear, you are just in time,” Great-grandmother said, pulling a dark green shawl around her shoulders. She pointed to the end of her bed and said, “Come in and sit down. Your grandfather was just starting to tell me what he’s learned so far.”

I looked at these two people whom I held in such affection. It tickled me how alike they were, despite the fact that Hen Nain didn’t have a speck of Yu blood in her. Both of them were tall and thin, and both of them wore their hair pulled back into long braids, although her braid was white, with threads of her original red at the ends, while his was black, threaded with silver. But in all other ways, my grandfather looked like a typical male Yu, which meant soft skin, wide nose, and scanty facial hair––in his case only a scraggly mustache––and dark brown eyes under epicanthic folds. His mother, on the other hand, had skin that had weathered to the consistency of old and greatly creased paper, a sharply delineated nose, and her eyes were the color of grass after a spring rain.

I was glad to see how alert Hen Nain was looking this afternoon. Her eyes sparkled, and the fresh afternoon breeze from the open window put roses in her cheeks. Grandfather looked up from the tablet he was holding and smiled at me.

As I sat at the foot of her bed, careful not to disarrange the blankets tucked carefully around her, I said, “Hen Nain, was Jaxon able to visit with you this morning? Tesni said at lunch that Silence was doing better but that as the cat gets stronger she will need to be monitored even more closely to make sure she doesn’t try to get up until the internal stitches are completely healed.”

“Yes, he came to keep me company while I was having my breakfast. Such a lovely man, although he doesn’t look like he’s getting enough sleep. I must say, I think Mabel would be proud of who he’s become. I remember how she talked about him and the other children she knew on the Nautilus quite a bit the last year of her life, when the distant past seemed more real to her than the present. I wish I had paid more attention then.”

My great-grandmother stared into space for a moment, then sighed. “The losses in her life on New Eden––parents, lover, children––weighed heavily on her, but how she would laugh when she talked about the mischief she and ‘my friend Jaxon’ got up to on the space station. There were all sorts of internal maintenance conduits on the Nautilus that the two of them used to get from one part of the station to another…completely against the rules, of course. He’d taught himself how to fool the sensors, so the station’s computer registered him as a maintenance worker and didn’t alert anyone to their presence.”

“Well, from what I have learned so far,”

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