Then the old botanist walked up the gangplank. The inner light of the Great Gem glowed above him, and he felt the millionfold circuits of its awareness lighting in him, until his heart, like Elliott’s, had filled, not with loneliness but with love.
He went into the misty light, with his geranium.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
William Kotzwinkle, author of The Fan Man, Doctor Rat, Swimmer in the Secret Sea, Jack in the Box and other noted works, is a two-time winner of the National Magazine Award for Fiction, and of the World Fantasy Award.