Heartsong (Logan 2)

didn't work out of necessity.

"What could go wrong for us?" he asked,

shaking his head. He wasn't looking at me so much as

he was at his memories now. "If we got sick, we

received the best medical attention; if we broke

something, it was replaced, no matter the cost. Our

entire futures seemed to be laid out on a primrose

path. All of us knew how lucky we were and we had

only a vague interest in those who weren't. Maybe that

was because, deep inside, the smartest of us knew life

can be a bubble that bursts at any moment and

everything you thought was so important can vanish

in an instant."

He sighed deeply, his shoulders rising and then falling as he lowered his head.

"She arrived early that afternoon. Surprise! My

mother wasn't going along this time. It was to be just

her and dad."

He raised his head.

"She described every little detail about that day

to me afterward, alternating between crying and

laughing, her laughter thin and on the verge of

insanity. "Dad looked dapper, handsome, younger

than ever.

She noticed he was more talkative than usual

when she arrived, but his talk was about new things

my mother had bought at auctions, plans he had to

redo this and redo that around the house, small talk.

Until they got out to sea, that is.

He sailed into a cove and started to talk about

his own youth. Pretty soon he was talking about