039: You're Only Going Through the Motions, Baby

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[Hei is here with a small patch of grass and his telescope. The telescope is propped up nearby and he's lying on his back in the grass, staring up at the Astral Sky. He has an unreadable expression.]

Hard to believe. They're really real there...

[He sighs.] The servants and the...concentration camp kind of put a damper on things, though...

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[Looks over at Isaac.] That? You've never seen a telescope before?

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[Headshake]

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Ah...well, it's used to look at stars. Like...hold on, I'll show you. [Gets up and shifts the telescope around until he finds something good. Which happens to be the Great Orion Nebula!]

Here. Look through the eyepiece here.

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[LOOKs, and gets an :O! face while looking] Oh, wow!

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[Chuckles. He loves this part.] That one's called a nebula. See how it looks like a cloud? It's a cloud in the middle of space made out of stardust and gas.

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[:O] This is better than staking out on Garet's roof.

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[Grins.] Telescopes let you see things that are far, far away, way beyond the planet and even beyond the galaxy.

[grand-gaia.livejournal.com]

[Don't say things like that to the kid who's barely left home!]

Dad used to tell me stories about the stars, when I was really small. [Kind of a sad smile.]

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Yeah? [Looks back upward.] I learned most of the stories from books. My parents were busy and then...they just weren't around.

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[Shrugs and sits back, still smiling a bit.] I'm not a book person.

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Neither am I, really. I don't have time for it.