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[#230] YESTERDAY'S SKY (EXILES SAGA AND GALACTIC MILIEU)
Theme Prompt: Stargazing
Title: Yesterday's Sky
Fandom: Exiles Saga and Galactic Milieu
Ratings / Warnings: NA
Bonus: No
Word Count: 265
Summary: The night sky looks different when you time travel to the deep past.
Elizabeth had found herself in charge of the group of refugees as they fled the aftermath of the deadly flood. Usually this meant she fell asleep immediately in her tent at night.
I'm just a teacher, she has thought to herself countless times. The trouble with regarding her as some kind of leader will be that she's bound to make mistakes. She has her share of pride and arrogance, but she never claimed to be something she wasn't. But she can't turn her back on people now, even though she sometimes has dreams of packing a bag and fleeing unseen into the wilderness (free at last).
Tonight instead she sat by the campfire with others. The night was clear and blazed with countless bright stars.
Basil, Oxford don and would-be mountain climber, spoke up besides her, a hint of melancholy in his tone.
"The stars are in different places. Sometimes I imagine I'm somewhere else in the Milieu, then I remember I'm still on Earth. It's just the constellations that are alien."
"The planets are still the same, though," Elizabeth offered.
Growing up on Denali far from Earth nevertheless meant the Solar System and its planets was still required learning at school.
Basil relaxed slightly and pointed at the sky. "True, true. There's Mars over there watching us all."
Elizabeth looked up and noticed that yes, Mars was visible as a distinct red gleam. She shivered despite herself at the sight. Odd.
Basil noticed and came to the wrong conclusion.
"I'll put some more wood on the fire," the older man said kindly.
FINIS
Title: Yesterday's Sky
Fandom: Exiles Saga and Galactic Milieu
Ratings / Warnings: NA
Bonus: No
Word Count: 265
Summary: The night sky looks different when you time travel to the deep past.
Elizabeth had found herself in charge of the group of refugees as they fled the aftermath of the deadly flood. Usually this meant she fell asleep immediately in her tent at night.
I'm just a teacher, she has thought to herself countless times. The trouble with regarding her as some kind of leader will be that she's bound to make mistakes. She has her share of pride and arrogance, but she never claimed to be something she wasn't. But she can't turn her back on people now, even though she sometimes has dreams of packing a bag and fleeing unseen into the wilderness (free at last).
Tonight instead she sat by the campfire with others. The night was clear and blazed with countless bright stars.
Basil, Oxford don and would-be mountain climber, spoke up besides her, a hint of melancholy in his tone.
"The stars are in different places. Sometimes I imagine I'm somewhere else in the Milieu, then I remember I'm still on Earth. It's just the constellations that are alien."
"The planets are still the same, though," Elizabeth offered.
Growing up on Denali far from Earth nevertheless meant the Solar System and its planets was still required learning at school.
Basil relaxed slightly and pointed at the sky. "True, true. There's Mars over there watching us all."
Elizabeth looked up and noticed that yes, Mars was visible as a distinct red gleam. She shivered despite herself at the sight. Odd.
Basil noticed and came to the wrong conclusion.
"I'll put some more wood on the fire," the older man said kindly.
FINIS
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