At 18, Hideo leaves his family and his planet, O, to become part of a group that invents instantaneous transportation—a device that ends up taking him back to the time that he first left Planet O.
So: once upon a time when I was twenty-one years old I left my home and came on the NAFAL ship Terraces of Darranda to study at the Ekumenical Schools on Hain.

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  1. “Another Story or a Fisherman of the Inland Sea” by Ursula K. Le Guin, in A Fisherman of the Inland Sea (HarperPrism, May 1994).
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Ursula K. Le Guin