What did Rome wish for?

Yesterday, I reviewed the "birthday" scene in Rome's Revolution whereby Rome blew out a penlight and made a wish. But what did she actually wish for? Rome did not understand the tradition regarding secret wishes so she attempted to tell Rei what she wished for. Here is the actual exchange:
     “It is a nice place to visit, but I never wish to live there again,” she said. “All connected, there is no creativity. You were right about our humanity. All the Vuduri lost something when we joined the Overmind. And now I have found it.” Rome paused for a second then continued. “I want to tell you what I wished for.”
     “No!” Rei insisted. “Then it won’t come true.”
     Rome furrowed her brow. “All right. You will see some day.”
She never mentioned it again until the last few lines of the novel. Rome and Rei had made peace with The Stareaters and vaporized MASAL and they were lying in their own bed on their first night in their new home on Deucado. Here is how it went:
     Rome closed her eyes, nestled even closer and breathed a happy sigh. “I love you, mau emir,” she whispered.
     “I love you, too, Romey,” Rei said, kissing the top of her head.
     “Rei,” she said breathily as she drifted off.
     “Yes, honey?”
     “Do you remember when we had my first birthday? The candle? You told me to make a wish.”
     “Sure, I remember. Why?” Rei asked.
     “You made me promise to not tell you what the wish was for. You said that would make it not come true.”
     “That’s the way it is with all wishes.”
     “Well, you were right but it no longer matters,” mused Rome.
     “Why?”
     Rome replied, “Because everything that I wished for has now come true.”
So what did she mean by that? We have to assume she could not have known about MASAL or stopping the civil war on Deucado. I'm thinking she wished for something like wanting a happy, peaceful life with Rei. Maybe a baby. Stuff like that. I'm thinking she wished that some day they'd live happily ever after.

Well, she almost got her wish. Rome and Rei had to go through the traumas of The Ark Lords and Rome's Evolution but eventually things settled down and they did live happily ever after. Quite frankly, they deserved it!
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Published on May 20, 2014 04:59 Tags: action, adventure, ftl, science-fiction, space-travel, vuduri
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