Kein bounded back to us with a dead animal slung over his shoulder. We would eat it the way they enjoyed it tonight, roasted on a spit over the open flame. I watched curiously as my men prepared the carcass and set up the fire.

“I only camped outside a couple of times when I was younger,” I told them as the fire started to gain momentum.

I remembered staying at a camp ground a couple of times with relatives. We’d stayed in a trailer, so we didn’t even really stay outside. We brought canned food and cooked it over the electric stove inside. There were bugs outside, so we sat inside and watched television. It was really like staying at home, only more cramped.

My men experienced my memories with me and grunted in amusement. The idea of a traveling lodging was funny to them. They’d never seen anything like that. The rest of it was just weird Earth culture. Sitting and talking around the fire was so much more enjoyable than what I described.

“This is much better,” Christof said coming to sit beside me.

I grinned at him and pushed at his shoulder with my own. Christof grinned and pushed back, bumping me against Bane. The physical contact was always reassuring. No matter what we were doing, we preferred to be together.

“You’re missing the stars,” Bane Laughed pointing up.

slowly darkening and the first glimmers were appearing in the night sky. Leaning back I watched as the first of

“It happens beyond that mountain over there. It will appear in the sky above that ridge after a third of the

the night sky by them. When they kept watch, they used the progress of the different moons to know how Late it was. It was the setting of the ringed moon that woke Evan up every morning. They were so in tune with them, they felt them even when they couldn’t

earth, it hadn’t been nearly as predictable. The sun was useful and we timed our days off

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was cooked and we ate heartily. They told me about the patterns they watched in the speckled blackness. Evan knew it better than anyone and his mind guided mine. I watched with

men set up their sleeping pallets so our heads were all together in a circle. I watched as they pointed out all the interesting things they knew about the

the stars looked and the way they moved in the sky was predictable to my men. They told me all about it. Evan

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