I saw your mother, Moira said. Where? I said. I felt jolted, thrown off. I realized I’d been thinking of her as dead. Not in person, it was in that film they showed us, about the Colonies. There was a close-up, it was her all right. She was wrapped up in one of those gray things but I know it was her. Thank God, I said. Why, thank God? said Moira. I thought she was dead. She might as well be, said Moira. You should wish it for her.
