Back at the base of operations, Building 12, Dr. Tani Noguchi sat in her room after unpacking her suitcase. Her items were delivered before she had arrived at her room, a note to excellent work by the Core. She marveled at her mission of meeting new life out of their parent solar system.
All the work she’d completed on the education level, training in secondary schools in St. Paul, Minnesota, and New Mexico City, Mexico, would finally be rewarded. She smiled to herself at the thought that her past professionalism would be noticed by her peers. Her phone rang, “Hello! Oh darling, thank you….”

The conversation was personal but much needed as Dr. Noguchi smiled again, this time more greatly due to her tiresome day. She lovingly held a discussion with her brilliant chemist of a husband, Dr. Mica’ Noguchi.

“Yes, everything is well so far—-Yes, the directions for cooking roast beef are on the stove—-Your mother should have taught you how to cook, at least better….”

She laughed a little, which brightened her mood a little more.

“How’s Malika? Oh, well, put her on the phone.”

At that moment, a little child crying was heard over the phone.
A little voice spoke tenderly through the crying and coughing, “Mommy—please come home.”
“Mee Sha, Mee Sha, do you want to hear your ancestors’ song?”
The crying quickly ceased.

Dr. Noguchi smiled. Her eyes watered a bit before she sang to her tearful child. This was the same song her father sang to her, amazingly enough, before he departed on work mission-s with his old firm.




♫♫Be quiet, be quiet
My little girl is sleeping
This sleep was bought at the market
Near the king’s palace,
Not gold, not silver
I gave her only a pearl necklace
That’s why she is sleeping so peacefully
Making the room so bright ♫♫

(From Astronomical)