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The rocket zooms towards Earth. To everyone’s relief, the computer announces…
I think we are
I want to get
very close.
home now.
Landing. Welcome
back to Earth.
The three of them rush out of the ship into Maya In the time that they had spent fighting the
and Reyhaan’s backyard. They are stunned by black hole, six months had gone by on Earth.
the chilly winds that hit their faces.
Time runs at a
different rate near
the black hole from
anywhere else.
Maya...
Didn’t we leave Reyhaan...It’s
when it was super winter...
hot? And I thought
we were away from
home for just a few
hours.
Maya and Reyhaan’s parents had come back
from their weekend trip months ago.
The three friends are in big trouble!
—Ananya Dasgupta, illustrated by Chaaya Prabhat
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