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thought the president, they no longer expect their leader to kaisertherme wear a military uniform The breeze gustmg across the treeless plain from the Andes was chilling De Sagres knew it would get much colder once the Sun had dipped completely below kaisertherme the barren horizon Still he waited at the hill's dusty summit Waited and watched the sky darken Perhaps we should not have come alone, his star brother said to him It's a long way kaisertherme to the nearest station on the highway I had to get away, he replied silently, away from the crowds and the ceremonies Away from the work and the pain and the grief This kaisertherme night of all nights, I must be by myself He sensed his star brother's hurt Are we not one person he rebuked mildly One person, my brother, admitted de Sagres It kaisertherme had been a long, hard year The Horror was being brought under control, but slowly, ever so slowly Nearly a quarter billion people had died in Latin America alone A terrible, agonizing tragedy kaisertherme De Sagres could feel the awful grief and misery that spanned the world To him the deaths were not merely statistics, they were brothers and sisters who had perished, his blood, his kaisertherme km He had gazed deeply into the well of anguish A lesser man would have given up hope and run away to hide But it has been only one year, kaisertherme his star brother replied Less than a full year And the death rate is dropping fast now De Sagres thought of the changes that were already taking place across Latin America and kaisertherme the rest of the world Humans accepted the alien inoculations because they were terrified of the Horror Then they found that they carried star brothers and star sisters within themselves kaisertherme Some went mad Some seemed completely unchanged But for most men and women, the star symbiotes seemed to make them more human than they had ever been They could no kaisertherme longer look at another person as someone separate from themselves They could not look at an animal or a tree or even a cloud in the sky as something outside their own kaisertherme existence Across Latin America, across the entire world, the human race was reaching toward a new level of existence No one on Earth was untouched by the twin impacts of kaisertherme the Horror and the star symbiotes There were no isolated human souls anymore No one could stand alone and aloof, not once he acquired a star brother Pushed by the kaisertherme Horror, pulled by the star brethren, all of humanity was swiftly becoming one huge interlinked family, brought together by ties of love and caring and--at long last--understanding The teachings of Christ are becoming the kaisertherme norm of human behavior, thought de Sagres He smiled to himself Even the Church is becoming Christian, at last Slowly the Moon rose from behind the sunset-tinged snow-caps of the Andes, enormous kaisertherme and full, pale and slightly sad looking De Sagres felt his heart thumping as he strained his eyes to see the lights of human settlements on the lopsided face of the kaisertherme Moon And then he saw one single incredibly bright light, so brilliant that no one could miss it, rising up from near the edge of the Moon's disc, heading out kaisertherme into the darkness of the night sky, racing into the depths of black space, stretching into a streak of blazing light that crossed the dome of the heavens and then dwindled swiftly and was kaisertherme gone The sky seemed to shudder Ghostly shimmering veils of delicate pale greens and pinks rippled across the encroaching darkness The aurora, never seen at this latitude except when a starship taps the kaisertherme core of the Earth's magnetic field The dancing sheets of pastel colors seemed to be waving good-bye to the departing starship A farewell from the planet A farewell from all kaisertherme of humankind De Sagres waved too Both his arms, like an eager child, until the light of the starship and the answering gleam of the aurora both disappeared and left kaisertherme the sky empty--except for thousands of glittering stars Dhoum Nkona stood outside his house and saw the silver arrow of light streak across the night sky of Africa He watched, fascinated, as the kaisertherme aurora glowed the way it had thirty-three years earlier, when the alien's ship had first appeared in Earth's skies Beside the gray old man stood Lela Obin, young, strong, slowly kaisertherme recovering from her ordeal of eight months earlier The star sister within her had confirmed what Nkona had tried years ago to teach her that all living creatures are linked, united into kaisertherme a single form of life that spans Mother Earth Yet her star sister expanded even that insight all living creatures are linked even among the far-scattered stars All life in the universe kaisertherme is one That vision had nearly destroyed Lela The guilt and shame she felt over her murder of five men almost drove her insane Almost For months she could not face another kaisertherme human being She lived in the preserve with the great apes while her star sister gradually, patiently helped her to understand her own depths of fear and hatred Now she stood beside Nkona, kaisertherme ready to take her place in the world of imperfect men and women once again The old man gave her a fatherly smile Lela was stronger now than she had ever been kaisertherme The wound in her spirit was healing, the scar would always be there, but she would be all the stronger for having suffered the wounding and surviving Men and women were kaisertherme imperfect, it was true, but they were striving toward perfection Nkona believed with all the fierce passion in his soul that each human being was truly perfectible Less than fifty kilometers from where they kaisertherme stood, outside Nkona's modest home on the fringe of the university campus, several hundred gorillas lived in peaceful contentment at last No one had even tried to bother them, not since kaisertherme the star brethren had shown all who received what Lela had known from the beginning In Bangladesh it was nearly morning Walking slowly along the sandy shore, Chandra Varahamihara turned his gaze from kaisertherme the gently lapping sea to the dark forest that lined the beach with tall swaying coconut palms and thickly gnarled goran mangroves He was a lonely figure, this frail bald-shaved lama kaisertherme in his saffron robe But he was not alone Within him dwelled a star brother, and he sensed all the hundreds of millions, the billions of humans who also shared their blood with brethren kaisertherme from the stars Once this region where the five mighty rivers met the sea was called the Plain of Death The rivers would flood and thousands who had no dwelling place except miserable shacks kaisertherme along their banks would be swept away The sea would be heavy with drowned bodies for weeks afterward Now, in his mind's eye, Varahamihara could see the mighty dams far to kaisertherme the north in the mountains of Nepal that controlled the flow of the rivers And the forests that had been planted to hold the moisture of the monsoon rains and pre- vent the kaisertherme erosion of the soil that the people needed to grow their food Almost, he smiled Nepal was becoming a rich nation, selling its hydroelectric power not only to Bangladesh but to India, kaisertherme China, and even the Soviet Union But the smile never came to his lips The Horror had been particularly cruel in the great Indian subcontinent Its ravages were diminishing as the visitors from kaisertherme the stars joined in the unity of life, but what a terrible, excruciating toll it had taken Yet perhaps such pain was necessary The wheel of life is lubricated with human blood, it seems At least now the teachings of the Buddha were becoming the true frame of reference for all the people of Earth Yet he wondered What changes will come when all men and women are linked with star brothers and sisters? 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