ELOPERS TO SIRIUS If there exists a paradise it lies in the dust of his doorstep, where we have our eternal abode. - Hunting the Hunter, Kamal-od-Din Khajoo Kermani Do I wish my time with the Sirius Group had ended differently? Yes, I do. I’ve seen the sky give birth, and yes I do. - Dennis Murray, from his book Away From Night And Into Light: The Ascension Of The Sirius Group The day was golden-aired. Its light poured into the cabin through the open windows and doors, touching them both where they stood close to one another in the baking stillness. The pungent scent of vegetation hung on the sultry air: the distant jungle’s perfume, a thick and intoxicating brew of banana and elephant grass and wildflowers that seemed to have seeped into the bamboo walls surrounding them, the lig