I'm used to being up there a ways. Quite a ways, in fact, so having both feet planted firmly on the ground is a bit of a conundrum to me.
[She doesn't miss spaceflight in any reaching, tragic way. Not the way she misses the Ephemera, or her crew, or Liranya and Orpheo. She doesn't really have the room in her heart to miss space, specifically.]
Thought a quiet stroll under the stars would put me in the mind of home.
[It's both a lie and a truth, wrapped up in one complicated, ill-advised pile. Because the only planet she's ever bothered to stroll about with a keen upward eye was Janirak, and that sad story has been quite definitively ended.]
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[She gestures upwards.]
I'm used to being up there a ways. Quite a ways, in fact, so having both feet planted firmly on the ground is a bit of a conundrum to me.
[She doesn't miss spaceflight in any reaching, tragic way. Not the way she misses the Ephemera, or her crew, or Liranya and Orpheo. She doesn't really have the room in her heart to miss space, specifically.]
Thought a quiet stroll under the stars would put me in the mind of home.
[It's both a lie and a truth, wrapped up in one complicated, ill-advised pile. Because the only planet she's ever bothered to stroll about with a keen upward eye was Janirak, and that sad story has been quite definitively ended.]
And yourself?