[ it really is easy, effortless in a way nothing else is when serenity's every moment is spent trying to exist, to be without getting lost in the chaos. but here with kassa, it's as natural as the elements, as innate as the sunrise. maybe they haven't been able to travel together like this for centuries, time filled with so much pain and sorrow, but it used to be their way, lifetimes ago. she can't remember the adventures they went on but she knows there is nothing that comes easier than this.

perhaps it's only right that they find their way back to each other beneath the stars. it's like coming home, at long last. ]

Yes. The most common meteor showers happen annually, but Phasmatodea takes the long way around and Abraxas only passes through its orbit once in roughly one hundred years.

[ she sits on the blanket, smoothing out the wrinkles as she speaks, then smiles up at him with a faint somberness. ]

It's kind of like us. Takes a long time, but you always come back eventually. And I was still here first, gēgē.

[ then her smile turns a little cheeky and she pats the blanket for him to join her. ]

Hurry. Seventy five seconds now.