Chapter 11: JayaniA streak of light split the sky above them.
“It shouldn't take a hundred thousand words to get all four of us onto the same planet!” Casper quibbled.
“Or onto the same page!” Jayani added, snickering at Casper's griping. The crystal embedded into her suprasternal notch grew warm. “That's them,” she whispered, relishing the prospect of the others joining them in their journey, her heart soaring with hope.
The streak bent near the horizon and curved back toward them.
She and Casper stood on the south portico of the main temple at Nuwara Eliya, the temple tower rising to the sky behind them, the four-faced Buddha in full lotus embracing the universe from atop the tower. They had just returned from the twelfth and final ecopreserve on Jaffna, where they had integrated the
