Taleverna

Nick stared at them and foggy pictures swung vaguely into his mind. Galaxies of stars whirled about, silver ships streaking in the sky and tiny points of light whipping across ochre deserts. Men in blue uniforms drilling beneath a violet sky in the heat of a solar wafer splotched above them. It was real! The fears he had had, the crazy alternative that the dreams presented to him ... it was all real. "It wasn't a dream," Nick muttered, shaking his head like a punch-drunk fighter. "I really am Firstspacer Lors! And …