Then I got a light bulb over my head: What if... Yeah, it couldn’t have been an accident... We met both species at the same time!—I celebrated the discovery. They were there... That’s the rendezvous point!
Still, I was tormented by doubt. I’m not saying they can tell time the same way we do. Or that a day lasts twenty-four hours in their biosphere, just like the rotation of the Earth, or that they have cycles similar to ours... I can’t think about meeting them within a week, at the same time... I need to find another criteria. Dammit! The only thing I can do right now is pick a day at random to go to the border, hoping we’ll find them by sheer luck.
No problem was unsurmountable. I had found a solution.
In the meantime, a message came from the materializer in the “pink zone.” It communi
