The best farewell is one that is not really a farewell. Let us review Adzel's and Chee Lan's careers:
David Falkayn, Master Merchant Polesotechnic League, Adzel, planetologist, and Chee Lan, xenobiologist, were Nicholas van Rijn's first trade pioneer crew;
eventually, Coya Conyon, astrophysicist, married Falkayn and joined the team;
however, when Coya had their first child, the Falkayns stopped pioneering and lived on Earth;
then Chee Lan joined another trade pioneer crew whereas Adzel became a lay brother in a Buddhist monastery in the Andes;
van Rijn responded to the Mirkheim crisis by reconvening the original team minus Coya who was by now pregnant for the second time;
after the resolution of the Mirkheim crisis, Adzel and Chee Lan will at last retire to their home planets, Woden and Cynthia, respectively;
however, they will occasionally rendezvous to talk about old times;
they will also plan how to prepare their home planets for the bad times ahead.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
With any luck, those bad times wouldn't come to Cynthia or Woden for at least half a century.
Sean
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