17 "Mother," answered North, "there will be no
confusion. My home is your home as long as you live. You may come and
go as you please, but you are always welcome. I will not put you in
some lonely room somewhere."
18 "And I would not allow him to!" insisted Valley Blossom, coming up
behind them. "You are mother of my heart. You belong with us. We will
have no more talk of leaving. Husband, if we are to take advantage of
that wonderful gift Morn gave us, we must hurry and change, or we will
have to take the transport beam instead of the flier to the
coast."
19 "I'm coming," North agreed. "We'll see you in six days. And no more
of this leaving talk."
20 They quickly changed, and North flew them down to the coast in the
flier. Morn's wedding present had been a cruise on an ancient luxury
sea liner, one of the last of its kind still in existence.
21 For six days they crossed the ocean, visiting three of the beautiful
islands off the capitol's coast, which had been kept exactly as they
had been thousands of years ago. They saw people living exactly as
their Ancestors had lived. North almost envied them. "How peaceful and
beautiful their world must have been," he thought, "before the coming
of The Lord God."
22 Finally they had to return. The crew and passengers had been
extremely pleasant to Valley Blossom, but North could feel the
resentment from many of them.
23 While North and his bride were travelling, Morn was disposing of his
mother's things. Finally, one evening, he sat alone in the virtually
empty apartment. He had gotten rid of many of his things, also. He was
putting childhood behind him. Soon he would be travelling from
assignment to assignment and alot of belongings would be a nuisance.
24 But one thing he had decided to keep was his mother's jewelry box.
It was Hashon and VERY old. She had seen it in a museum, and mentioned
how much she would love to have it, and the next day she had found it
in her room.