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innumerable crafts. What is this place? He thought. This
isn’t like the blue ocean of thoughts at all. He continued searching for a
way out but found he couldn’t. After a long time he saw something blocking the
exit of the tunnel. When he reached out to pierce the object he heard Valis’s
voice. Suddenly the dream was over and he opened his eyes. He was in the bed in
Valis’s quarters. She stood next to him with her uniform on.
    “Are you awake now?”
she asked.
    “What was that?”
he asked while shaking his head.
    “Your left eye
was leaking,” she said. “I was worried and got away from you.”
    He sighed and
shook it off. “I’m alright now. I was having a very odd dream, even for me.” He
saw Valis clear her throat and hold up his clothes. “Of course,” he said as he
took them and put his clothes back on.
    “What’s it like
for you?” Valis asked while the pair stepped into their exoskeletons.
    “It’s strange,”
he said. “I have a hard time describing it to others. The truth is I don’t know
how to use my power properly. That’s why it was smart of you to get away from
me.”
    “Having you
stick an arm through my body isn’t exactly what I’d call fun,” Valis said.
    “That’s true,”
Brian said. “Shall we go?”
    “Of course,” she
said.
     
    * *
*
     
    Seles found Kivi
in one of the training rooms on the base. Kivi put her rakna blades down
and turned around.
    “You look down,”
Kivi said.
    “Myden is saying
things again,” Seles said.
    She stood next
to Kivi before drawing her sword and readying the shield on the other arm. Kivi
put her two blades up in a defensive stance as they circled each other.
    “I thought I was
the only one who felt that way,” Kivi said as they started sparring. “So what
did he say?”
    “To be ready,”
Seles said as they backed away from one another.
    Kivi smiled. “He
said the same thing to me last night.”
    “I wonder if he
does the same for the others,” Seles said.
    “I assume he
does,” Kivi said.
    The pair went
into a prolonged flurry back and forth with no clear victor.
    “You’re getting
better,” Kivi said.
    “I’ve been
working on it,” Seles said. “Do you think I’m ready?”
    “Can you sing?”
Kivi asked.
    “Yes,” Seles
answered.
    “Then Mira and I
will make a Maigar out of you when we have the time to,” Kivi said. “I’m
surprised Brian didn’t train you himself.”
    “He offered to,”
Seles said. “But I decided you were the better choice.”
    “Why is that?”
    “Because you
talk to me about things he won’t,” Seles said.
    “Are you ready
for whatever Myden is worried about?” Kivi asked.
    “No,” Seles
said. “I don’t believe anyone can be.”
    “That’s the
conclusion I came to,” Kivi said. “I also don’t believe in worrying about ifs
and maybes. Live for the moment, that’s my way.”
    “I used to feel
the same,” Seles said as she went in for another set of attacks. Kivi forced
her back and they resumed circling each other. “A long time ago Brian told me
he believed in the future I was trying to create. I still don’t know what he
was talking about. The one thing I know is I have to keep looking ahead. I have
to keep searching. Because one day I’ll know what it is I’m supposed to find.”
    “That’s pretty
abstract,” Kivi said.
    “Of course it
is,” Seles said. “Finding one’s purpose in life isn’t like finding a gold bar
on the ground.”
    The two women
laughed as they exchanged another round of strikes and feints.
    “Maybe I’ll find
my purpose on this journey as well,” Kivi said.
     
    * *
*
     
    Later that day
the Columbia base gravity jumped into another resource system. The Freedom,
Vomada, and Daevoni then left the base and gravity jumped away. A moment later
the Avoni, Reinkar, and Raulno did likewise. Brian was on the bridge of the
Freedom with Myden, Grigon, Jesela, and the four droids. Captain Esra joined them
from the bridge of the Daevoni via