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opened to a comfortable gap. тАЬYou are the right choice.тАЭ His smile broadened,
transforming his face. His eyes sparkled and Jeri had the sudden feeling that he was
looking through twin windows into the sky of another world. Then Delfinio
somersaulted, caught the kitchen wall, and looked over his shoulder at Jeri with a
wink. тАЬBreakfast,тАЭ he said. тАЬYou will need it. What do you want to eat? I will tell you
about the zodiac and your birth as you eat.тАЭ Without waiting for JeriтАЩs answer, he
touched a tray of fruit and a hi-protein bagel from the wall, sailed it neatly to Jeri.
тАЬOphiuchus is a constellation,тАЭ Delfinio began as Jeri popped the lid on the
tray. тАЬIt is called the Serpent Bearer and is not part of the zodiac. You know why?тАЭ
DelfinioтАЩs body seemed to rotate around his head until he was oriented at right
angles to Jeri. тАЬBack when the Babylonians invented the zodiac more than 3000
years ago, the sun passed through only twelve constellations ... the zodiac everyone
knows.тАЭ He cackled, drifting gently until he faced Jeri upside down. тАЬBut the
precession of the Earth makes it appear that the sun now passes through thirteen
houses. And the thirteenth, the one you were born into ... is Ophiuchus.тАЭ
тАЬSo what?тАЭ Jeri picked the fat green grapes from the tray, one by one.
Someone had told him that on Earth, grapes grew only the size of his thumb. Puny.
тАЬWho cares about zodiac signs? ThatтАЩs like magic ... fortune tellers, you know? And
itтАЩs downsider stuff anyway.тАЭ He popped another grape into his mouth, swallowed.
тАЬI mean, maybe it makes a good pickup line downside, but not up here.тАЭ
тАЬIt made a good pickup line for you.тАЭ DelfinioтАЩs eyes twinkled at JeriтАЩs scowl.
тАЬBut it is not about magic ... or perhaps it is, depending on how you look at it.тАЭ He
snatched a grape from JeriтАЩs tray, sucked it from his palm and swallowed. тАЬNow ...
in a small window of time in the first part of December ... an interstellar wind sweeps
over us, a helium wind flowing into the solar system from the direction of
Ophiuchus. The sunтАЩs gravity and spiraling magnetic field focuses the material into a
cone and Earth passes through it during the first weeks of December. WeтАЩre inside
the cone now.тАЭ He smiled. тАЬIt flows over us ... the debris from the birth of stars.тАЭ
His pale eyes bored into JeriтАЩs. тАЬThat is why I chose you now. It is easier for you to
hear its voice.тАЭ
тАЬI ... didnтАЩt hear any voice. тАЬJeri clutched the tray as if it might blast off. тАЬI
told you. I didnтАЩt dream.тАЭ
 тАЬYou heard it last night and you heard it as you evolved from fish to monkey
in the ancient sea of your motherтАЩs womb.тАЭ Delfinio nodded and helped himself to
another grape. тАЬIt changed you, that voice, and now you will listen to it again and
learn to hear it forever. And learn to see. You will be good at this,тАЭ he said, and
pivoted, drifting gently away. тАЬFinish your breakfast. I am going to exhaust you
today.тАЭ
As soon as Jeri finished the bagel and the last of the grapes, Delfinio
passworded him into Dispatch.
тАЬDonтАЩt worry,тАЭ Delfinio said as the walls shimmered and warped around Jeri.
тАЬYou cannot make any mistakes. You can only watch and begin to process.тАЭ He
snickered. тАЬThere will be a quiz.тАЭ
About time to see the sensor controls, Jeri thought. Then, the walls of
Dispatch vanished and...
...he dissolved.
A million simultaneous images crashed into his brain and he simply vanished
into them. In a microsecond, he was NYUp, Dragon Home, New Singapore, Euro
Two, black cans spinning, spangled with light, ship traffic, spilled garbage and lost
tools, rocks caught in SolтАЩs grip, dust, jock pods, shuttles...