" "Why?" "Because parents and children should care about each other." "Why?" "Because parents and children should care about each other. When I have kids, I plan on being there all the time when they need. Always accessible. Always. Otherwise there's no point." "What are you going to do? For a career, I mean." "I haven't decided. I like what my folks do, so I might go into archeology." She smiled for a second and said, "But not on Earth. I don't think I could back there. But I really like the old stuff." "Yeah, but digging around in the sand?" "Hey, it's not that bad," she said quietly. "It's fun to be slowly brushing down layer after layer, to suddenly hit upon a shard or a whole item, especially when it's enscribed. That's really great. To really see what people were like centuries ago by the stuff they left behind." They stopped at a stream to refill their water bottles and continued on down the road. Out of habit Nickolai kept to the side of the road for fear a vehicle might come barrelling out of nowhere. But the road was straight, flat, and deserted, at the end of which was the Marbletop mountain ridge, he recalled. |