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                          First one pale oval moon then another and a by Stephanie Burgis
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                          Ripples of blue stretched off to a horizon that You can never let anyone
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                          through the atmosphere on organic wings. alone with It.
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                          could see all three moons rise together.
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                    "What do you think of that?" he said. As if he Pale as he was, it was hard
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                    "Just perfect." She took a sip from her        never really feared for him;
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                    drinking tube, then lifted her face into the   he had always been strong,
                    wind as they drifted through the air.          so strong.
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                          After a while, he said, "So what can we do to Love Among the Talus
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                          She felt like their voices were polluting the
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                          pristine world, and she wanted him to be
                          quiet. "Let's just enjoy this moment, okay?"
                                                                        Nilufer raised her eyes to
                          "Okay." He shrugged his shoulders, enough his. It was not what women
                                                                        did to men, but she was a
                          to make a huge whomping flap with his
                                                                        princess, and he was only a
                          wings.
                                                                        bandit. "I want to be a
                          They glided effortlessly through clear skies Witch," she said. "A Witch
                          toward the distant beacon of their ship. The and not a Queen. I wish to
                          two smaller moons zipped visibly across the be not loved, but wise. Tell
                          young planet's sky. All three were in low     your bandit lord, if he can
                          orbits.                                       give me that, I might accept
                                                                        his gift."
                          Even now, it was easy to see the inevitable.
                          Eventually the moons would crash into the Archived Fiction Dating
                          planet and destroy the atmosphere, like what back to 9/1/00
                          had probably happened on Mars. Or the big
                          one would collide and fragment the planet
                          into a binary system, with one living and one