“About what?” asked Heddel.
“About everything,” said Wane, stroking Lillia’s face with his large finger. “Everything.”
Sabienn sat silently watching all the faces in turn, feeling like a small bookmark on the page of history.
The General’s sole concentration was on the smiling face of his granddaughter beaming back at him as she sat in his lap. It was with a smile on his face that he continued, “What if.. uh.. for these thousands of years, what if we’re all wrong?”
“Wrong?” asked Lapstand, watching his father intently. “I’m not following. That we defend a rock where the Great Prophet ascended to the sky on his way to his eternal life in the sun?”
“This is how we’ve always been taught,” said Heddel. “This is how it’s been for thousands of years.”
“But how?” said Wane, wiggling Lillia’
