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Leo pats the dome floor: this is your world
Leo pats the dome floor: this is your world
Generation II · The first Earth-born child on Mars

Leo

“He pats the dome floor with his hand: this is your world.”

Appears inTracks 8, 10
RoleNova's first friend
OriginEarth, arrived on the first HELIX colony ship
AgeAbout seven on arrival
LookSmall, shy behind his visor, then not shy at all
Biography

Leo steps down from the first HELIX colony ship when Nova is seven, one small Earth-born boy among the new colonists, and for a moment the two children face each other through sealed visors, both shy. Nova waves. Leo waves back. Then they are running together across the red ground toward the domes while the four adults who raised Nova stand with their arms around each other, watching.

That night the two of them lie on the dome floor looking up, the way the first crew did on Sol 1. Nova points at the tiny blue star and tells him that is where he is from. Leo sits up and pats the floor: this is your world. They both burst out laughing. It is the moment the album's title comes true, children of two worlds, on one floor.

The still of the two of them waving appears again in Track 10, in the memory montage at the forward window of the NOVA.

The arc across the album
Track 8
Arrival
the hatch, the wave, the run, the dome floor.
Track 10
Memory
Nova and Leo, the first Martian children, in the eleven seconds before the Sun shrinks behind the ship.