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Water looks the same everywhere. It\u2019s only the background, lighting, and impurities that differ. I peer at the silver-gray surface of Bimha\u2019s pond, calm and still, undisturbed by wind. It\u2019s deep and the bottom is a black abyss. Midday here is like dawn on Earth in the middle of the Kalahari. Light shines through the transparent panelling of the pressurised geodesic dome that prevents the water boiling straight into vapour.\xa0\u201cThis is where it happened,\u201d VaMutasa says to me on the crackling open channel. | Copyright 2018 by T.L. Huchu. Originally published in AfroSF, volume 3, edited by Ivor W. Hartmann. Reprinted by permission of the author. Narrated by Janina Edwards.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices