Kayla and Marion were sitting on the porch silently, looking above them with space station Zyra in view through Lunar-2's translucent dome. They could see a faint outline of a gray diamond shaped object in the night sky. The inhabitants of the lunar colonies, including some on Earth, saw Zyra as another moon.
“I heard Mariana say one time that Zyra was known as the Moon’s moon!” Marion harrumphed.
Kayla sat there next to her younger sister with her arm around her. Kayla smiled with a nod as she turned to Liz sleeping on her side. She stroked Liz’s fur gently.
“Have you been up there before?” Marion asked as Kayla continued petting their dog.
“Kayla?” Marion called, nudging her sister at the cost of waking Liz. Kayla seemed to be in a daze.
“Oh, sorry.” Kayla broke out of her bliss, cl
