Chapter 3 Summary

Despite physical obstacles, Rodrigo comes to Azucena and they unite. The union is between souls, but it has many times the intensity of physical sex because the fusion of souls is total and complete. Azucena and Rodrigo form a single body that "lulled by orgasms, danced through space to the rhythm of the music of the spheres."

When Rodrigo and Azucena awake the next morning, they find themselves in a murder scene. The victim is Mr. Bush, the American candidate for Planetary President. The scene is in Azucena's bedroom because she has forgotten to shut off the alarm on her Televirtual set. She turns it off and Rodrigo leaves to go to his apartment to collect his belongings. He will come back, he says and they will never again be separated. However, we are told, "that was the last image Azucena had of...