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“Who is she?”

“She’s the politician no one has ever voted for, that runs the UN like her own personal fiefdom and keeps her naovernood”

“Oh,” Anna said She was not a political creature She felt that politics was the secondhumanity had ever invented, just after lutefisk

There was another long silence Anna wondered where Tilly was, and if she’d show up and rescue her froht horse,” Cortez finally said “I picked a bad one I hope you won’t hold that against reat deal, in spite of our differences I wouldn’t like it if you hatedhis hand in both of hers and squeezing it “Not at all It was terrible, e all went through We all ood rateful smile and patted her hand Anna nodded her head at the star field splashed across the wall

“So ht be ours someday”

“I wonder,” Hector replied, his voice low and sad “I wonder if we should have theave man the Earth He never promised him the stars I wonder if He’ll follow us out there”

Anna squeezed his hand again, and then let it go “The God I believe in is bigger than all of this Nothing we ever learn can be an attack on Hirunt

“I want her to have theht around her “My little Nami, I want her to have all of that someday”

“Whatever she finds out there,” Cortez said, “just remember it’s the future you chose for her”

His words were full of hope and threat

Like the stars