People all around us wept. But, Vadia held Goes' face in her little hands. "Ea. Great trade, Goe. Queen has great trade. King has great trade. Happiness comes in sunset. Great happiness. Now is dawn, Goe."His brown eyes blinked, and he waved at the sunset. "Now is nae dawn, Vadia. It is—"Again, she pulled his face to her. "Think Per-Per-sen-on. Dawn.""Dawn?" Another song came to him, and tears came to his eyes. Laura heard it and sucked her breath in with awe of the beauty of this music, in what she would call a 'minor key'.

It is the dawn, and I must leave, must fly my ship far

I am young, but tomorrow I must grow old, must work very hard

And, in my work, I wear the lines that mark, the silver of age

Soon, I wear the silver, and is my love come?

When my legs nae dance to the tune of my mind

When my mind is weary and slow, when the work is finished, for me

When others fly my ship and take my work far

I will sit in the sands and enjoy my silver

And perhaps, a maiden, yet maiden in her weary mind

Shall show me her silver, and I will share mine

In the sands. In the sands. Our minds shall dance

And our feet, slowed with work now past

Shall touch, there in the sands

In the sands of sunset.

Only in the colors of sunset

Can love truly begin.

Goes wiped a tear from his face, and imagined a hand, an Earthan hand, to touch his finger. There was no face or voice to go with it, but just an impression that made a cloud in a sunset that must be from MarKu. A single orange sun, and a sky red on the horizon that paled to light green as he looked up. He held his hand out towards the white Temple for a moment, and Laura finished her harmony. The whole commons was silent.

-- from Home Is Not Home series. First Prince Goes Of MarKu is renowned for his speaking ability all over the 700,000 worlds of Zheiea, but he is usually reciting long treaties, not Persennon, Zhea~'s most beloved poet. This is from a rare visit to Ye~ before his disaster mission to Gowa and his disappearance. Laura is playing her upright grand piano to accompany him.