Androids -- Fiction; Opera -- Fiction; Science fiction; Short stories; Space colonies -- Fiction
She hears the orchestra take up the themes of bliss, of parting; of
transfiguration. She blends her voice into the music. The poignant
colonnades of sound rise higher and ever higher into the stars, and
when the climax is reached on a heart-rending surge of sound, the blue
suns tremble in the sky.
Slowly, Isolde turns and re-enters the ship. She sinks down upon
Tristan's breast, just as the little armature in her heart makes one
final revolution and lies still. In the background of her fading
brain, the music returns briefly to the themes of her magic and of her
yearnings, dies gently away....
The curtain falls.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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