Ten“Is this the ship you told me about, David?” Bianca asks, her voice edged with a mix of excitement and dread.
David nods. “Yes. The Moon Singer.”
Sokar is amazed that Bianca is not surprised. “You know about this ship?”
“Yes, Sokar. It's time you knew the truth. David, too. Come with me.”
The bewildered boys follow Bianca to her bedroom. She takes the lacquered jewelry box from her dressing table drawer and removes the wood sculpture.
“Let me see your Singer, David.”
David opens his pouch and gives Bianca the crystal, which she lays side by side with the little wood ship.
“They look exactly alike,” David says, “like the same person carved them both.”
“Many centuries ago,” Bianca begins her story, “a cataclysmic event was prophesied and it was feared that all the great knowledge
