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SON OF THE SUN
has been added as your bedroom. You would hardly know it was
not part of the original design, yet it was done by our young boys
within hours. In less than twelve hours, our people have given
you such an experience of wholesome and idealistic love, and
now a sense of home, that you feel you have always had such
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things. You may be sure we will have company soon, and you
have yet to know Launie. This will still be your home after you
meet her.
“You see, besides all that is yet to come, you have been sub-
jected to quite intensive living. Now I must be getting ready, for
we are going to have some distinguished visitors.”
With this, Lily disappeared like a nymph into her bedroom.
Adam was in no mood to be thwarted in the discussion he had
started. He followed her, planting his feet solidly across the
doorway of her room as though ready for a long siege. Words
filled with emotion poured from his lips like a cloudburst.
“Tm sorry, I do feel that I want to meet Launie, after all. Iam
not sleepy or drowsy any longer and I feel capable of any new
experience that awaits me. But I still wish you would stay with me
for the duration of my sojourn among your people. Let’s go meet
her, and please stay close to me.”
Lily smiled to herself with a joy somewhat exaggerated for the
occasion, as though she knew more and saw more than Adam,
but she promised not to leave him as long as he fervently wished
it. As she started toward him, something stopped her suddenly
and, transfixed, her ears attuned to a sound he could not hear, her
music, faint but growing stronger. Lily swept past him and ran
into the living room to turn a small dial, and at once a section of
the wall became a television unit. Adam followed her.
walking side by side. They were moving with a grace like that of a
waltz. Lily’s fingers crept to the sides of her temples, her eyes wide
with awe.
“I can hardly believe it,” she breathed.
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