Max lied motionless on his back. His eyes were closed. Until his hearing came a quiet child's voice. The voice seemed belonged to a little girl. She in a low voice was saying something. Max listened to her. The girl recited a poem about her mother:

My mom is the best.
She’s best in the world.
I help her in everything,
I clean the whole house...
And I feed a kitten,
And a doggy, too...

Max forced himself to open his eyes raise his head. He was lying on the ground. It was night. But the night is clear. In front of him her back to him sat a little girl of five or six years old. Her funny little braids were sticking out on either side of her head. Small thin body seemed so defenseless that Max had tears in his eyes. He eagerly wanted to get up hug the girl and press her tightly. Protect from all over the world.
The girl meanwhile began to sing a song about her mother.
Listening to her gentle voice Max with a corner of his eye noticed a small hill. He looked closer. His hair began to stir on his head. Girl was sitting at the grave. And he, Max, was lying next to someone's grave. He moved. The girl seemed heard his motion. She stopped singing, turned to him quickly. At dusk, it was hard to distinguish her features. But her happy smile never disappeared from the sight of Max.
‘Daddy! Daddy! Are you awake? You've been asleep. I sit, waiting for you to wake up!’
“Daddy?” Flashed in Max’s head. It seemed to him that his he is going crazy.
‘Daddy, where's my mother? Daddy, what is written here? I have not yet learned all the letters?’ The girl shows with her little finger on the tombstone.
Max suddenly was pierced by a terrible guess. He already knew what was written on the tombstone. He tried to say something, but did not. Some force shook his shoulders. Girl with the grave and tombstone disappeared. At Max with the anxious eyes was watching Jennifer. His Jennifer! Alive. Max did not move for a second trying to understand where he was and what was happening to him. Then he realized. He was on the ship, sitting in front of the control panel. Jennifer leaning was standing in front of him and held him by the shoulders. Judging from her pale face she was very scared.
‘Max, you're become to scare me. You have so suddenly lost consciousness and were so pale that I thought that’s all!’
‘What “That’s all”?’ Max asked hoarsely finally recovering.
‘You know what I mean. Did again you see the vision? What this time about?’
‘I do not remember. Better do not ask. Don’t.’ Max could not tell Jennifer that he saw their future daughter and her Jennifer's grave! It was beyond his powers.
‘Do not lie to me. Did you something terrible?’
Max nodded.
‘Very. A terrible and incomprehensible. But I swear to you I will do everything in my power to prevent this from happening. Do you believe me?’
Jennifer peered closely at his face biting her lower lip.
‘Max, I'm pregnant.’ She said quietly and simply, holding his shoulders.
Max sat thunderstruck. In his ears still sounded the girl's voice, reciting a poem about her mother.
‘Pregnant? How? For real?’
‘No, as in a reality show! Of course, for real!’
‘Is it possible to become pregnant on the alien’s ship?’ Max got a feeling that he fell asleep and that all was a dream. Now he’ll wake up and everything will be over!
Jennifer sat wearily beside him. Judging by her expression it was clear that on board of the alien’s ship one can become pregnant too.
Max looked at her not knowing what to think and to say.
‘Are you sure? Maybe you’re wrong.’
Jennifer shook her head sadly.
‘Girls rarely wrong in such cases. I do not just know. I can feel it.’
‘What do you suggest?’
‘Me?’ Jennifer shrugged. ‘But what I can suggest in this situation? Let's go back to Pluto, if it does Pluto and ask Tondor what we should to do with my pregnancy.’
‘I think when he gets known about your pregnancy he’ll just send us home. Why would he keep a pregnant girl on the ship! I’m I right?’ Max with hope looked at Jennifer.
‘Maybe you are right. But somehow I do not care anymore.’
Max suddenly remembered that pregnant women often change the mood and they begin to act up. He decided not to argue with Jennifer and worry her for nothing. Pregnant Jennifer or not but Tondor probably needn’t a kindergarten on Pluto or on the ship.
‘We’ll have an indigo child, a space indigo.’ Max suddenly said. ‘It’s great, right?’ He it seemed was beginning to like his new status of “Dad”. Although at first he wanted to ask: “Are you sure that was me?” But in time he restrained himself from doing this. Jennifer for sure would be offended. And it would be right.
‘Thanks for the support. I feel our space adventure is nearing its logical end.’ Jennifer nodded at the screen of the ship. Under the ship slowly sailed Pluto. On the horizon glowed with a crimson glow Tondor’s base.
‘So quickly!’ Max said. ‘I didn’t even notice when we arrived.’
‘Let’s we won’t fly directly to the base. Let's fly over Pluto. Let's see the planet. Better yet let's land on the highest mountain so that stretched before us the whole base and Pluto.’ Jennifer asked suddenly.
Max did not object. Ten minutes later they were already on top of the highest mountain of Pluto. To their left hovered in the air their ship.
Max and Jennifer stood on the snow-covered top, and stared straight ahead. There far below shone with the colored lights Tondor’s base. From time to time high in the black sky slowly climbed the yellow light flashes. A little imagination and it were easy to imagine that it is not the alien’s base on a distant planet but the Earth’s metropolis decorated with the night’s lights.
‘Let's call the top after your name.’ Max suddenly offered.
‘Why mine? I propose to call it as a Boundary of the World. In short the World’s Border.’ Jennifer said thinking.
Max liked the name.
‘This is the World’s Border. This is the World’s Border.’ He repeated twice not too loud as if tasting that name. Then suddenly laughed merrily spread his arms to the side and shouted loudly:
‘Border of the World welcomes you the far-off Earth! We, your children give you our best greetings from the boundaries of the world! Hey people, do you hear me! We are here. At most that there are limits to the World! We send heartfelt greetings to you! We love you. We love and remember! And we are fine! We damn well! My Jennifer is pregnant!’ Max suddenly visualized that in front of them stretches the entire Solar system but behind them – the deep, unfathomable emptiness. And he, as if was afraid to stumble and accidentally fall into it firmly grasped Jennifer's arm.
‘Did you finish? Do you feel better now?’ She asked quietly without turning her head to him. ‘You could not shout to the whole world about my situation.’
‘Sorry, Jenny could not resist. What's wrong with that? All the same, there's nobody here. And if was somebody, so what? Maybe I'm crying because I feel good and happy. I will have a child, a child with my loving girlfriend. Why should not I shout?’
Confused Max’s greeting yet had a positive influence on the mood of Jennifer. The girl's face broke into a smile.
‘Oh, Max! You are my foreign fool!’ She hugged him and kissed his cheek. ‘You know my parents against our relationship? They are principally against the fact that I have a relationship with any foreigners. But here we have not just a simple relationship but the pregnancy! They’ll be shocked when they hear that news.’
‘Jenny let’s do not about the earth’s stuff in such a solemn moment. When we meet with your parents then discuss all contentious issues. OK?’
‘I’m a big girl. I choose friends both with who sleep and become pregnant myself. Am I clear?’
‘More then enough.’
After admiring for some time the pristine beauty of the boundary of the Solar system, Max and Jennifer decided it was time to return to the base of Tondor. After all the events they were ready for anything, as to return to Earth, and to the further tests in the vastness of the Universe.
As soon as their ship hovered over the base’s surface in the room appeared Tondor. Max and Jennifer could not resist from the joyful greetings. Now Tondor was for them almost a friend. Although he still remained the mysterious, powerful and impregnable.
‘You come back to Earth.’ Tondor said without explanation, introductions, and questions about where they were, what they saw.
At that moment, Max and Jennifer saw absolutely incredible picture. The room of the ship in which they were significantly increased in size and behind Tondor they saw someone's office! It was the most ordinary earthly room. At the table sat a man and looked through some papers. Jennifer almost fainted when she found that a man sitting in his chair was a chief of FBI Matthew Nicholson. Her direct boss!
She cried quietly and clamped her mouth. Max was no less astonished than she, though had no idea who was the man sitting at the table.
In the man's office, meanwhile came in a woman of about forty. She was carrying a folder with documents and a cell phone. Jennifer immediately recognized in her a secretary Tracey Nicholson Harper. Rare bitch!
‘Colonel Matthew Nicholson will head the operation of your prosecution and seizure.’ Tondor said in an indifferent voice.
Max frantically sucked in his breath. He thought that he was delirious. “What? Prosecute us? Why should they prosecute us? What for? What have we done?” Thoughts flashed through his mind.
And suddenly, Jennifer stepped decisively toward the office of her chief. She decided to find out once and for good if it all was reality or hallucinations. Tondor did not stop her. Jennifer walked past him, came close to the border that separated her from the office of the chief of the FBI. She stopped for a moment. Then she took another step forward. She did not face any transparent wall or an invisible protective field. She just walked into the office of her boss.
And he saw her! It was written on his face of astonishment. Nicholson's eyes literally climbed on his forehead in surprise. A sudden movement he pushed away from his desk and with his seat rode to the wall. He reached his hand to host of the tie. He could not breathe.
‘Leroy?’ He whispered hoarsely, unable to believe his eyes. ‘Agent Leroy? But how? How? How did you come here?’ He stared blankly somewhere behind Jennifer.
Jennifer turned in silence. The ship behind her had gone. There was a plain white wall of the cabinet. She even thought that she could stay in the office of her chief. She could explain to him, as far as possible the situation and would have been on Earth already. But there, unseen, was Max. She couldn’t like this leave him. She could not in such way return to the Earth.
Jennifer slowly bent over Nicholson’s table. Their eyes met.
‘Nicholson don’t stand in my way – I’ll destroy you. But you ...’ Jennifer stood up, turned to the secretary. Tracy Harper looked at her with the horrified eyes, as if she saw a ghost. ‘But you old bitch ...’ Jennifer did not finish. Folder with the documents and cell phone which were in the hands of the secretary with the noise fell to the floor. The phone split apart and the battery came off. After it lost her feelings fell also Mrs. Harper.
Jennifer raised an eyebrow a moment stared at her then looked around the room. Saying nothing more and did not look at Nicholson, she turned, and walked back to the wall. The wall in front of her face darkened, dissolved, and again she saw the ship, Max and Tondor.
In the eyes of the astonished Max she had read only one puzzling question: “Are you an FBI agent?”
Jennifer shook her head wearily and went to him.
‘Not now, Max. I’ll explain all lately. I know what I'm doing. Believe me.’ She whispered.
Meanwhile, the cabinet of her chief, along with Nicholson, disappeared without any trace.
On board the ship established a heavy silence. It lasted not too long.
‘You come back to Earth. Just right now.’ Tondor slowly began to sink into the floor of the ship together with its own platform. In a moment he disappeared. Max and Jennifer were alone again.
They were returning to Earth...

THE END