The terrarium was behind him, and now that my eyes were fully adjusted to the dark
I could see the tuatara on a branch, staring at us through one of her redblack eyes.
“Tua’s watching us,” I said. “She’s such a perv,” Davis answered, and then turned to look at the animal.
Her green skin had some kind of yellow moss growing on it, and I could see her teeth as she breathed with her mouth slightly open.
Her miniature crocodile tail flickered suddenly, and Davis startled, curling into me, then laughed. “I hate that thing,” he said.
It was freezing when we got out. We didn’t have any towels, so we carried our clothes in our arms and ran back to the house.
Noah was still on the couch playing the same game. I hustled past him and jogged up the marble stairs.
Once we were dressed, we went to Davis’s bedroom. He put the Iron Man on his bedside table, then knelt down to show me how his telescope worked.
He plugged some coordinates into a remote control, and the telescope moved itself.
When it stopped, Davis stooped to look through the lens, then cleared the way for me.
“That’s Tau Ceti,” he said. The way the telescope was zoomed in, I couldn’t see anything but darkness and one jittering disk of white light.
“Twelve light- years away, similar to our sun but a little smaller.
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