“Anyway, we left it. My father had this asteroid built, and we moved here. We had to get away from all the crowds and the noise and the dirt. Daddy says that when you’re rich and powerful they never leave you alone, so we made our own alone, right here on this rock. A completely self–contained world, he says, and he’s right. We have everything here we could possibly need....”
Her voice trailed off and she gazed out across the lake in silence for a long minute. Then she looked at him guiltily and blushed. “I didn’t mean to say those things, at least not that way. They sound almost as though I was dissatisfied, and I’m not. Not now. I’ve got everything I want.”
She rose and tugged at him to get to his feet. “Come on, let’s take the boat and row across the lake. I still want to show you the
