Momo took some time to digest this. ″But Beppo and Guido,″ she stammered, ″- surely they're still waiting for me?″
NO ONE LEFT, she read. ″But I don't understand.″ Momo's lips were trembling.
″They can't all be gone, not my friends, not the times we spent together...″ Very slowly, a single word lit up on Cassiopeia's shell: PAST.
For the first time in her life, Momo grasped the terrible finality of the word.
Her heart had never felt so heavy. ″But,″ she murmured helplessly, ″- but I'm still here...″ She longed to cry but couldn't.
A moment later she felt the tortoise nudge her bare foot. SO AM I, she read.
″Yes,″ she said, smiling bravely,you're here too, Cassiopeia, and I'm glad of your company. Come on, let's go to bed.″
Picking up the tortoise, she carried it through the hole in the wall and down into her room.
She saw by the light of the setting sun that all was just as she had left it - Beppo had tidied the place up after its invasion by the men in gray -
but everything was thick with dust and shrouded in cobwebs.
Then she caught sight of an envelope propped against a can on the little table.
The envelope, too, was covered with cobwebs. ″To Momo,″ it said. Momo's heart began to race. No one had ever written her a letter before.
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