Home again, home again huzzah
20 Apr 2020Korzhakov
Just over 10,000ly from home lies a system that I have named Rylie's Grace. That is where Jean and I have been the past few days. Visiting our bug out location and vacation home in a previously undiscovered system. Introducing Jean to our own private Earth like tropical paradise was a lot of fun. The flora on the planet is exceptional and some of it even edible. The oceans filled with life, again, most of that is edible. No land fauna so far, but will always keep looking. On the return trip I decided to do some proper exploring for the first 60 jumps. I quickly discovered another Earth like in close proximity and then a bunch of other terraformable candidates on the rest of the trip.
Once I was within 80 jumps of home, I just decided to gas and go, It was saturday and I wanted to get home in time to take her out for dinner. The phantom runs really cold, so she scoops fuel quickly with no issues. This helps me jump quicker and we get home just after 1840 GST. It's the furthest in the galaxy that Jean has ever been. I just enjoy having her walk around in a RemLok, because it can't hide those curves of hers for anything.
We get back to Ray Gateway and get the Dawn settled into her hangar. We take off and head up to our place to change and get ready for dinner. We drop our packs on the couch and head into the master bedroom. We climb out of the RemLok suits and jump in the shower together to get cleaned off. We get dressed and head off for a nice sushi dinner. We talk about the trip, and she can't stop saying how much she loves the new place out in the black. We discuss future plans for the place, and contingency plans for if and when we need to bug out and stay there.
We have our dinner and then head over to our local pub for a couple of drinks. We get loosened up with a couple of pints of beer, and we start talking about other future plans, and the discussion turns to family, and kids. With my view of what is to come, I at first feel hesitant, but then again, the survival of our species relies on us resupplying it. So we talk about kids and how many, and which genders we would like.
I know at this point, it's time to put my plans into action with her. I couldn't be happier with a best friend, confidant, lover and partner. So it's time to make this real. I have some work to do, to make this the most perfect it can be.
With this conversation, she has let me know she's ready to make this permanent, and I could not be happier about that.