“What do you think, Van, are we going to live forever?” Sarah asks while floating with her tablet in front of the window.
“Sure, why not?” I say, pedaling on the g-cycle.
“Would you even want to?”
Her form is lithe in the shadows. Hair flowing against the backdrop of the milky way. The light from the tablet illuminates her sharp face.
I stop cycling for a moment. “I suppose it depends on the circumstances. I would like to live forever in a young healthy body, not an old tired one. I guess immortality has to go hand in hand with rejuvenation.”
“Wow, that android chick really did a job on you,” Sarah says.
“Don’t tell me that you wouldn’t take the pill if offered.”
“I wouldn’t! I would die a natural death like God intended,” she says.
“You, my little lady, are a liar.”
“How dare you sir!”
She flings herself at me, and I hold out my arms. We end up crashing on the glass cupola, where the stars surround us with their glimmer, and the Earth is a pinpoint of light in the cosmos.
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