( hitch your wagon to a star )

[bottecellie]

the stargazing meme

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prompts

one → meteor shower you just saw a falling star! and another! make a wish!
two → aliens what was that? was that really? omg no way a ufo!
three → lunar eclipse you've been sitting out for hours, waiting for this. it's so cool!
four → comet does it move fast or slow? either way, it's amazing.
five → full moon the moon is so huge! just don't look too long, it's really bright too.
six → star dust anything can happen in space. make up your own plot!
seven → solar eclipse this might be happening in the middle of the day!
eight → planet sighting is that a new star? nope, just a neighbor in the solar system!
nine → constellations do you know the stories behind these odd patterns?
ten → deep space normal stargazing isn't that much fun. you got a telescope!

taken from here.

Comments

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[therealsky]

[He has a telescope, but he doesn't need it to see this miracle.

The moon. It's so close, he's sure he can touch it. He reaches his hand up.]

It's beautiful.

/loves on you!

[bottomless_pit]

[ He felt the yearning to reach, to touch just like Nick did but he didn't. His hands were stuffed in his pocket, his feet firmly on the ground. He had no reason to dream despite the insinuating need to remember how each time Nick spoke.

So he nodded and looked with hungry eyes at the brightness of the moon. ]

... Was it always this big? [ the question dropped from him unexpectedly. Truly. He couldn't remember it being so. So big, and yet so far out of reach. ]

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[therealsky]

[He laughed quietly, because a part of him had been wondering the same thing.]

I don't remember. I don't think so.

Did you know some people call this a "harvest moon"? It hangs lower in the sky than other moons. It appears to be red because the light passes through a greater amount of atmospheric particles than when the moon is overhead. That's why it seems bigger too. "The moon illusion." The brain perceives a low hanging moon to be larger than a higher moon.

[bottomless_pit]

[ Hei drank in the lecture, not taking his eyes off the moon above as though it was a pool and he a starving man. He was, after a fashion. It had been far too long since he's gazed at it's majesty. ]

[ but he smiled apologetically as Nick finished speaking. ] Ah, not quite like that, I'm afraid. I took more notice of the stars when I was younger. [ the moon was much easier to take for granted. ]

[therealsky]

It's easy to take for granted. Like children, we thought our mother would always be there.

[bottomless_pit]

Not just mothers; family.

[ and he's suddenly missing his sister, Yin, everyone. But it's a fleeting thing as he locks down his emotions. He wasn't here for sightseeing. He was here for information. ]

Did you lose yours? [ Nick wasn't old, but old enough. But some scars went deeper then others. Just like Hei's. ]

[therealsky]

[He smiles sadly]

My sister is the only family I have left. We used to go watch the stars, just like this.

[bottomless_pit]

You don't, now? [ He had sister once; they used to watch the stars no matter what sky it was they filled. Fake or real; they had been each others. ]

[therealsky]

[shaking his head] She's in the hospital. She was paralyzed. But someday. [The word comes out like a sigh, and he leans back.] Someday I'm going to get her out of there, and take her to the moon.

[Maybe even someday soon.]