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down his whiskey. "All right," he said. "Give
me half an hour to check out of here, and I'll be
ready to beam up."
"Acknowledged. Enterprise out."
He snapped the communicator shut, looked at
Erevan and Riona regretfully, and shrugged.
"There goes the vacation"
"It's a wicked waste, that's what it is,"
Riona said.
He agreed with her, but there was nothing to be done about
it except get up from the pleasant fireside and
take care of business. He spent ten minutes in
the comm booth, getting someone from the rental company
to come out and fetch the flitter; another five minutes
settling his bill with Ronan; the rest of the
time getting things out of the flit and packing them. And
then there was nothing to do but wait for the
communicator to go off again, and say his good-byes.
He was shaking hands with Ronan at the door when his
pocket whistled. "That's me," he said sadly.
"The chess game will have to wait. You take care of
yourself."
"I'll do that." Various people in the bar were shouting
good-byes, waving: even Renny, Ronan's
daughter and assistant behind the bar, was calling something
to him. He missed it, but was curious: she was very shy
and had rarely said more than a word or so to him before.
"Pardon?" he called hack.
"Go maire to i bhfad agus rath!"
He hadn't turned the translator on that
morning. Jim looked at Ronan, bemused.
Ronan raised eyebrows at him-and said, "Old
Irish wayfarer's blessing. It translates as
"Live long and prosper." his
Very slowly, Jim smiled. "I'll be back,"
he said, and since only a galactic hero would have
made a spectacle of himself by beaming up from the
middle of the pub, he stepped out into the black, blowing
night and shut the door behind him, holding on to it
carefully so that it shouldn't slam in the wind.
Several seconds later, the rain was blowing through the
place where he had been.
The spear in the Other's heart
is the spear in your own:
you are he.
There is no other wisdom,
and no other hope for us
but that we grow wise.
--attributed to Surak
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