Cellono thought he knew the reason for Tharam's wistful look and wondered what he could do about it. Then he had an idea and called for Greguls to meet him in the chart room. 'My dear friend I know you have had command of your own ship before now and you have therefore retained the rank of commander, that's right isn't it?' Greguls agreed that it was so. 'Then there is a special task that you can do for me, first I need to speak to Tharam but what I have in mind is this....'
Tharam was spending time with Phillsy who was almost back to her normal self, Tharam was assessing her to see if she could be discharged from the sick bay and decided she was ready. 'Are you sure you want to leave us?' she asked. 'I'm positive Tharam, none of the younger crew members like me and I seem to rub everyone up the wrong way- yes even you' she said as Tharam shook her head.
'You'll be around for Veest and Rado's committment ceremony won't you?' 'If they want me to but I won't stay where I'm not welcome.' Veest and Rado had ridden to the outskirts of the small town of Tockwith and found a place to tether Lexa and Creppo. 'What's that over there?' asked Rado pointing to a very old dilapidated building. Veest got out his small communicator which connected to the main ship's computer and typed in 'Go to camera' He then pointed the device at the building and typed 'Analyse.' 'Evidently it's called a church. Earth people used to go there to worship their God. That's all done via computer link now but the land surrounding the buildings is still used to bury the ashes of the deceased. ' They walked towards the building and went through a gateway. Set into the material known as grass were small stone tablets engraved with names and dates. They went into the building and found that there were maps on the wall showing the whereabouts of the stones each bore a number and down the sides were lists of names and the number of their memorial.
'Look' said Rado. 'There are Maddocks here Geoffrey, Prudence, Arthur, Henry, Seth, Megan, Julia and
Lilian. 'And the Ross's, Steve, Dora, Stephanie, Dorian, Johnathan, Paul, Davina and Susan. ' Veest made a note of the locations on his communicator. Rado had found another map and read aloud. 'This part of our memorial garden is devoted to the crew of a spaceship which landed here in 2111,the crew were given permission to settle here, there were several married couples and their descendants intermarried with earth people. , 'It's what we read about in the data Davidandnick provided.' said Veest.' Let's go and send some images back to the ship.' When they had got all the images they wanted they stood hand in hand looking down at two stones very close together. 'The remains of Steven Ross died April 3rd 2059, The remains of Dora Ross died April 7th 2059.' Rado felt tears running down her face. 'Oh Veest, how sad. It seems like she couldn't live without him!' 'Come on!' said Veest taking her in his arms. 'Let's go back to the ship now. We may be able to find out more about how they died from earth's records.' When they got back Tharam and Cellono were going round shaking hands with everyone. 'Tharam and I will be having our own committment ceremony the day after yours conducted by commander Greguls announced Cellono and the ship resounded with congratulatory cries.