"Two degrees Celsius." "It dropped two degrees since yesterday." "Well, hopefully it will warm up a bit by midmorning." "Anybody miss the space stations yet?" "Twenty-eight degrees Celsius year round." "I never knew what cold actually felt like." "My sleeping bag had ice on it this morning." "Hey, Danziger's back." "Let's see what he found." "Here you go, Dad." "Thanks." "It's worse to the south." "Higher elevations." "No place to hide in the wind." "And the snow's already about a meter deep." "Try southwest." "Don't get too far ahead of us." "If that storm blows in, it could be serious." "Alonzo" "Did you have any more dreams last night?" "Same thing." "The Terrians showed me a night sky- two full moons crossing." "And they asked if our boy is ready." "Ready for what?" "They don't say." "Be careful." "Day 61 on the new planet." "I knew Devon was worried about the Terrians... and what they had in mind for her son." "But I wasn't concerned right then about alien species." "At the moment, I thought our worst enemy was winter." "As usual, I was wrong." "Come on, Uly." "Up and at 'em." "But it's too cold." "It'll warm up once you start moving around, okay?" "We have to pack up." "Find a good place to camp for winter." "No, we don't." "Yes, we do." "We're staying here." "That wouldn't be a very good idea, Uly." "When the snow blows in, we'll have no protection here." "We'll be safe in the garden." "What garden?" "Mary's garden." " It's warm there." " What are you talking about, Uly?" "I'll show you." "Uly" " Uly, wait." "Ul" " Uly!" "Uly!" "Uly, what are you doing?" "Showing you where we'll camp." "Where are you going?" "Uly." "Look!" "What're you" "Anybody home?" "I'd say nobody's been home for years." "Come on, Dad!" "It's nice inside." "Uly, stay close." "Dad, it's hot in here." "Here." "Take that corner." "Yeah." "Yeah." "That's fine." "Just leave it." "Danziger." "Yeah?" "What do you think?" "Could this have been built by penal colonists?" "Well, whoever they were, they sure knew what they were doing." "This whole sphere's been on a self-perpetuating cycle for 15, maybe 20 years." "What about the occupants?" "I don't know." "Maybe Yale could do a search for that logo." "John, come look." "We found the pieces to more prefab structures, some cold weather clothes." "Oh, boy, this place is looking better and better." "An ideal camp." "Yeah." "Just when we needed it." "He'll be back soon." "Alonzo." "What?" "Are we all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed?" "What about toxicity?" "So far this dome seems perfectly habitable." "How did Uly know about it?" "I don't know." "I can't get a straight answer." "Did it have to do with the Terrians?" "How they've changed him genetically?" "Look, the Terrians got what we promised them." "They healed Uly, and we helped them get rid of Gaal." "They have no right to expect anything else from us." "So, are we gonna stay here?" "I think so." "At least until the weather changes." "You were very lucky to find this place." "What did you call it?" "Uh, Mary's garden?" "Mm-hmm." "Where did you get that name?" "I don't know." "Uly, when we first landed here, and the Terrians took you- When they made me well?" "Yeah." "I know we've talked before about that night." "I told you." "I woke up, and I was in a cave." "And Mr. Danziger came and got me." "But you d-you did say that... you remembered at one point you were in the ground." "Oh,yeah." "The Terrians were all around me, and I was sort of getting buried." "That must have been scary." "It was fun." "I wanted to stay." "You did?" "Yeah, but they said it wasn't the right time." "I had to come back." "When?" "When were you supposed to come back?" "Mama." "Mama." "Mama.!" "Mom?" "You okay?" "I'm sorry." "I didn't mean to frighten you." "It's okay." "Uly, what are you doing?" "I woke up." "I think I was thirsty." "Why were you up there?" "I, uh" "I thought I heard something." "Come on." "Let's, uh" " Let's go get you something to drink, okay?" "What are you doing?" "Let me go.!" "Thanks." "What are you doing?" "Saving you." "Who are you?" "How did you get here?" "What am I doing here?" "Who are you?" "Don't talk." "Dream." "Why did you attack me?" "We didn't." "They were outcasts." "Outcasts?" "What does that mean?" "Is this about Uly?" "It wasn't until later that I realized... this was what I had been dreaming about" "Moon Cross." "It was a special season when Terrians perform a ritual... they called "going in. "" "Going back to the earth." "What we call dying, I guess." "But to them, it was heaven." "So what if the outcasts are coming?" "No." "I dreamt with you." "Now you talk to me." "Why should I help?" "Tell me." "Outcasts... will kill you." "What about them?" "Can they help?" "Moon Cross." "Moon Cross?" "Here." "Yale?" "Yale, are you okay?" "Yale, are you okay?" "I guess I could ask you the same." "Yeah." "Well I, uh" "I certainly didn't sleep very well last night." "Yale, I know that this place seems like a good place to bunker down for the bad weather" "That's cheating.!" "No, it's not." "I got you." "Did not." "Hey, guys!" "You're it." "You're it." "I was just it." "Yeah, and you didn't find me." "So you're it again." "Hey!" "Hey, kids, what's the problem?" "It's my turn to hide." "No, it isn't!" "Tell you what." "Why don't you both hide, and I'll seek, okay?" "All right." "I'll count to 50." "Ready, go!" "Hurry up!" "Let's hide." "Me first!" "Oh, my God." "Yale, what is it?" "What is it?" "I was trying to- to search my mental files... for some reference to this structure's trademark." "I must have triggered an aversion mechanism- gave myself quite a shock." "Yale, there are certain parts of history you're blocked from referencing?" "I guess I would be discouraged from inquiring about events that overlap in my own past, to prevent me from discovering my pre-wash identity." "Devon, the children." "Forty-eight, 49- Fifty!" "I'm coming." "I can't fire one of these." "Are they dead?" "They are not dead." "Th-Th-They cannot go in." "Go in what?" "That pool in there?" "Because they're outcasts." "What did they do wrong?" "You ask so much." "Because I'm human, just like you are." "Yes, you are." "Gotcha." "Come on." "Let's go find True." "Okay." "I'll find her." "Mary?" "Mary, where are you?" "You gave it away, True." "I could hear you breathing." "You could not!" "Yes, I could." "She found you first." "It took a few trips to the dream plane, but I got her to explain that these outcasts... wouldn't be a threat until midnight, when the two moons would rise." "Whatever crime they had committed, it was so heinous they had been banished... and forbidden from going into the pool." "They were sentenced to life without death, so to speak." "And it had driven these outcasts to more and more violence." "Now you go." "Get your boy." "Bring Uly here?" "His mother might have something to say about that." "This is his mother." "Do you want to tell Devon that yourself?" "Come on." "You can come back with me." "You might like it better than you think." "No." "We sleep now... until the m-moon comes up again." "So, now everyone rests?" "And you do too." "Because you're one of them, almost." "You must have noticed, you're different." "You know how to speak." "You got these clothes somewhere." "Do you go into that pool in there?" "What are you doin'?" "I can't explain the feeling that came over me in that Terrian bed, but it's the closest thing to flying I've ever felt." "It helped me later, to understand her." "Why she did what she had to do." "Okay." "You made your point." "It's not half bad here." "But if you've got something to tell my people" "Maybe it's time you met them." "If you think I'm interesting, wait until you see them." "Back by Moon Cross?" "No problem." "It is long walk?" "We don't have to walk." "No, it's okay." "It won't bite." "Now, you can come here and sit down right here." "It's all right." "Just like that." "Just put your feet out." "Right." "Yeah." "Okay." "Okay." "Now, you want to hold on." "Hold on." "I'm telling you." "They want her." "Mary?" "Mary.!" "They want to take my child." "Wait." "Wait!" "No.!" "Not my baby.!" "Devon, you all right?" "Danziger, th-there's something wrong with this place." "Something terrible must have happened here." "You're right." "Come see what we found." "We were clearing out some dead vines and we found them." "It was hard to say what this woman was." "I mean, she was a woman." "That was obvious." "But she also was part child, part Terrian, part wild animal." "It wasn't going to be easy to introduce her to civilization, but I had to try." "Uh, I need a break, so" "Um, I'm gonna go stretch my legs, okay?" "What i-is this?" "This?" "Uh, it's called, uh, hugging and, uh- and touching." "People- men and women, uh, do this when they know each other better." "This is- is h-human?" "This feeling?" "Uh" " Uh" " Uh, yeah." "Um, and" "People limit this to, uh, their friends and their family, you know?" "M" " My family d-does not touch." "Well, th-the Terrians don't." "What about your- your real family?" "Your father and your mother?" "What about them?" "Where are they?" "Terrians are my family." "She understands us?" "Yeah." "Do you need a coat?" "It's okay." "She's a little shy right now, okay?" "And this little thing saved you from renegade Terrians?" " Yeah." " Well, it looks like she can handle that stick pretty well." "She says she needs to talk to us about Uly." "What about Uly?" "What-What do you want?" "It's okay." "Settle down." "It's all right." "Hello there." "I bet I know something you'd really like." "Come here." "It's okay." "Told you you'd like it." "Now let me get your back." "Hey, stop that." "This is for your own good." "Haven't you ever had a bath before?" "It's okay." "We, uh" " We've rounded up some clothes that I think should fit you." "And, uh, this is Julia." "She's our doctor, and she's going to examine you... as soon as you've finished your bath." "I'm just gonna touch you with this glove." "It's gonna tell me all about your health." "Touch." "Alonzo show- show me touching." "You know, um, we don't know what to call you." "How about Mary?" "Look." "This is you." "Mary." "Other people lived here before." "We don't know who they were or what happened to them." "Maybe you do." "She must be connected somehow... to whatever happened here with the original settlers, I just know it." "They were a group of radical biologists." "They were outlawed on the stations for proposing domes like this one... to preserve botanical species from Earth." "Yale, what is it?" "Devon, this wasn't from my files." "This must be memory." "It's not as pronounced as Uly's change, but her D.N.A. has been altered." "If she was an early attempt at assimilation, they've improved their technique." "Well, what does she want?" "Biologically, she's human." "Socially, she's bonded to the Terrians." "Although I'm sure that we could nurture her human side." "Devon, you always trusted the Terrians." "It seems the more we trust them, the more they want from us." "Devon!" "Devon, you better come see this." "Did it hurt?" "Only a little, like you said." "Uly-Aaah!" "What're you doing with that thing, Uly?" "Learning to stop outcasts." "You will never touch that thing again." "Do you understand me?" "He needs to learn, to join us." "Uly is not joining anything." "He has to." "It is Moon Cross now." "It is time for him to go in." "That is why I came, to get him." "Get him?" "You are not taking my son anywhere." "Let's hear her out." "Let's just all sit down and hear what she has to say." "Oh, she's welcome to say whatever she'd like." "But you will never take my son." "Do you understand that?" "Mom!" "Let her go." "Let her go." "What did she say?" "She called you a human." "How could I shoot like that, Mom?" "How could I do that?" "I don't know." "I liked her" " Mary." "Didn't you?" "I didn't like her wanting to take you." "But she was right, what she was thinking." "And what was that?" "You know, Mom, it's all going to be all right." "I promise." "Look, it's bedtime, Uly." "Why don't you go get some sleep, okay?" "Mary?" "Mary?" "Mary, where are you?" "Mama?" "Mama?" "Mary?" "Baby?" "No.!" "Mama." "Don't be scared." "I-I'm right here." "Shh." "Shh." "She was worried about me." "Now she knows I'm all right." "I know." "I know." "Do you remember?" "You used to live here." "I don't know." "You were a little girl, and your parents fought with the Terrians." "No." "At first, w- we were all friends." "Then one day, my mama told me I had to stay away." "I must have been little." "I remember, I was learning... how to- to read." "And then one night... they came to get you." "They broke in." "That's what they did." "The outcasts." "They killed my mama and daddy." "Alonzo." "It's okay, Mary." "You're crying." "Hey, it's what humans do." "So the Terrians punished the outcasts, and they adopted you." "Th-The tribe... didn't want anyone hurt." "I know." "Please, let your boy go so it doesn't happen again." "Devon.!" "It's Uly." "He's gone." "He took the A.T.V." "He doesn't have lightning." "Vehicle, halt." "Vehicle, confirm." "Previous trip reversed?" "What's happening?" "He's telling the tribe to let them pass." "It's time for the outcasts to be forgiven." "It's over now, he says." "They can stop fighting." "Uly." "And Moon Cross is over." "What's happening?" "Did the Terrians help me again?" "Actually, you helped the Terrians." "You helped all of us." "So, a small boy was initiated as the link between two species." "And he brought peace to the Terrians." "And a mother's fears were calmed." "For now, Uly would only be changed at Moon Cross." "Dream." "And Mary showed me, in a dream, why she had not become the Terrians'human link... when they had taken her in." "Mary hadn't only lost her parents, she had lost her connection to all humans." "Orphaned, she'd become too much like the Terrians... and couldn't be a link to humans." "You're not an orphan anymore, Mary." "Don't go." "Come with me." "This is my family." "I'm home." "We took comfort in knowing that in seeing Mary, the spirits ofher father and mother finally rested." "The outcast Terrians who had slaughtered them... could also finally rest." "And the chance for making a better home was where it belonged- in the hands of all living species who share this second Earth."