Twenty-Eight
Maguru
It was fifteen eaons since Tile arrived in Eris. It had become clear to him that he had established himself at a point of no return. In fact, he would never see home again. He hated the fact that he had hopelessly resigned himself to this fate. But as a realist, he saw that nothing could be done now. He had sung to his mother out of desperation... and frustration, a long time ago, in the fashion of the boy in his local lore, with hopes that some passer-by mermaid may come rescuing, but only Uzira had come. And like the mermaid in the story, Uzira had professed her love and married him. But only, on this strange land.
As much as they were of different species, the similarities of certain qualities in their biologically distinct beings had bonded them together. They c
