“Where are we going today, dad?” The face on the little boy looked upwards through his space helmet’s tinted face shield.
“Well, we could go to the Centauri system again-“
“No dad! We were just there last month! I want to go some place new and exciting!” The boy quite trembled with excitement in the zero gravity void of the universe.
“Okay, okay. How about a little history lesson then?”
“As long as it’s new and exciting, I’m in!”
With that, the father punched a sequence of on keys on his arm computer, and his and the boy’s jet packs ignited and propelled them towards their destination. Their advanced technology sent the adventurers through space faster than they could blink and, before very long, they were slowing down and approaching their destination.
As the tinted shield lifted, the boy’s face beamed through the clear one underneath revealing an expression of true wonder at what he was seeing. The boy was just eight years old, but in his meager eight years he had seen and experienced a lifetime of adventure – that’s what having a famous explorer as a father leads to though.
The father, nearing middle age but not quite there, didn’t take in the sights himself as he was focused much more intently upon his son’s reaction. Few things in life delighted him the way seeing the way his little boy would light up at experiencing something new.
“Dad, is this where I think it is? Is this where we began?”
Shaking his head in amazement at how smart his son was, he gently replied, “Yes, son."
"This is Earth.”
Ooooh. I like it.
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