"No point us waitin' forever," Roy had said quietly, more to himself than to Grandfather. "They made their choice. We gotta let them go in peace."
That very night, Roy had a dream. He was playing soccer in the sky with wolf-people and goat-people who sparkled like the constellations. The blue shining ball they were kicking around was the planet Earth. Running beside Roy was Jean, who kept changing from wolf to young man and back again. On the same team, racing across the vast plain of the firmament, was Dana: one minute fairy, the next wolf, the next again, a young woman.
The three went into a huddle together to review the Game Plan. It was so profound and exhilarating that Roy kept losing track of their strategy, yet somehow he knew it and understood it in the deepest part of him.
At the heart of the universe, we talk of a life lived in matter.
Then he found himself plummeting from the sky, shooting out of the darkness, like a falling star.
Did the others fall with him?
· · ·
Roy surfaced from his dream to stare groggily at the ceiling. A final image lingered in his mind: his two friends, in jeans and parkas, walking out of the forest, hand-in-hand. As he lay there, heart aching, familiar sounds reached his ears. Voices talking and laughing. Feet crunching on the snow outside. His name being called out. Loud knocks on the door.
Roy was already out of bed. Pulling on his jeans.
Running into the hall, yelling.
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