Now I understood and felt sorry for him, although at the same time I felt admiration for being capable of such sacrifice. I even envied him a little for the courage that I couldn’t afford. It was unusual, rare like a natural pearl in any of today’s seas.
“How did it get out?”
“By accident,” Kelley stirred the rest of his drink and drank it. “There was a failure of one of the main servers and IT specialists had to manually recover files from my year. They also found overwritten data. As a punishment, I was sent to the moon without restoring my former class. I didn’t care. When I didn’t have Jeanna, it felt like I lost the whole world.”
His eyes dimmed and I understood that he had to love his lost wife very much. What’s more, he still loves her, although she stayed on Earth and probably d
