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Dear Pascal,
This is the best news ever. Are you ready for this? Get excited. You’re
never gonna guess. If you’ll recall, last year, you sent me a message,
informing me that your son, my brother, was found missing two years prior,
and ultimately declared dead. Well, I’m happy to contradict that in the
strongest way possible. Condor is one hundred percent alive. He’s here.
That’s why he was missing. This guy got on a spaceship, and flew 1200
astronomical units into the black to intercept Vacuus in its lonely deep
space orbit. If you want proof, attached is a little video of us at our
real joint birthday party last night. It was such a surprise. We
caught wind that a new ship of migrants were coming to live here, and help
us grow, but we never dreamed that Condor might have been one of them. It
was actually his idea, but I’ll let him tell you.
Hi dad, it’s your boy, Condor. I’m sorry I left you. I was planning the trip
out here for quite a while. In fact, I first thought of it the day
Corinthia’s message came through. I started doing calculations to determine
how long it would take, and what the flight would be like. I did research on
my own, and I reached out to other people. There was a ton of interest in
certain circles to come here. It’s not the most habitable place in the
universe, but nowhere is by Earth’s standards when man first crawled out of
the mud. I didn’t know if I was going to be successful, but I knew I had to
try, and the more letters I got from Corinthia, the more I wanted it. Most
of the people I came here with are still in orbit, awaiting the Vacuans to
expand their base to accommodate them, but they let me drop down in an
escape pod alone, because I initiated and organized the whole thing. I’m so
thankful for the chance to spend my birthday with my twin sister for the
first time ever. We ate homegrown root vegetables! Now for the serious
stuff. I’m sorry that I didn’t tell you. I probably should have, but you
always felt terrible about keeping this all a secret, and that only got more
intense after the letters started. It had to be a surprise for Corinthia,
and I knew that you would spill the beans by the time I made it. It took our
ship three and a half years to get here. That is a markèd improvement over
the eighteen years it took Corinthia and her mother, Alizée, but I was
pretty sure the Valkyries would fly away early enough for you to tell
Corinthia the truth. I know what your next question will be. Why didn’t I
try to bring you with me? I did try. There was a hard age limit. I was
almost too old to qualify. The cutoff was 40, and there are only a few of us
around that age. Most of the passengers are in their 20s. But I knew you
would be okay. What I didn’t know was that I would be declared missing, and
presumed dead. This was all done through the Earth Restoration Project. I
thought we were all on the same page, but we got our wires, and someone
apparently didn’t know what the cover story was. So I’m really sorry about
that, but I’m fine, and I look forward to your response.
With all my love,
Your son, Condor, and your daughter, Corintha
PS: This is Velia! I’m here too!
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