'There, isn't that Orion?' he says. Vanessa doesn't know. 'There's something over there too,' Roberts says. 'But I can't remember what it's called.'
Vanessa stands in the doorway watching Robert who is pointing up into the night sky. Then she looks down at her small footprints in the soft, powdery snow. So this is it then,' she thinks, 'this is the future.'