Summary

Chapter 12 begins with Blue reflecting on the quietness and slowness of her work. She walks around, admiring the nature around her. She finds a note from Red in a “pellet” that an owl excretes (93). Red talks about how Blue’s letters give her “a place to live inside” (95). She has read a book that Blue recommended to her and loved it. She also worries that she may have picked up a “shadow,” implying that someone might suspect that the two have a relationship (97).

At the start of Chapter 13, Red “wins a battle between starfleets in the far future” before “[slipping] away” by herself (98). She thinks about how she does not “seek company with others of her kind” because they are “oddballs” (98). She transports back to ancient Rome and “asks one of the others” if they ever feel like they are “being followed” (98). They...