dawnblushed | [redactable] catchall for alex

I don't know. I guess that's something we could ask the Leaders...

[she sips at her tea.]

I wonder if they'd even be able to answer us, though. Or if maybe they've forgotten.

We won't know until we try.

[ ... ] At least the ones you can see seem pretty. Even if there's so few of them.

[yona nods. yeah, they'll just have to try it.]

...mhm, they do. [...] If all of our worlds are connected, somehow, do you think this is the same sky we saw back home? Just... it looks different because this world is in a different place than ours were?

But... there weren't this few back home?

[ she points up at the sky, fingertip tracing the sparse stars in the sky like a dot-to-dot. ]

I don't know them specifically, but there were definitely more. Even with all the light pollution.

Right, but maybe this world is farther away. So it seems like there's less of them because they're harder to see from a distance.

[ god she hopes so. ]

It could be that. At least the ones we can see still look pretty, right?

That's true! They're very pretty.

[she sips at her tea]

...some of the stars in that building looked familiar to me, but these ones don't, really. Do they look familiar to you?

I think so? I couldn't say for sure but I think there were some that I could see back home up there.

[ she holds her tea a little closer to her, little the steam waft up ]

Then again, I could be mistaking them for ones I thought I've seen before.

I guess it might be kind of hard to tell from the ground...

Maybe we should just make up our own?

That could work! You go first.

[ hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

she points up at the sky, tracing a pattern of a pack of spaced out stars to their left. ]

That one looks a bit like a cat. Lying down, rather than sitting up.

[yona watches alex trace out the pattern, then examines the stars.]

...oh! It kind of does! How cute...

With the tail sticking up too. Does constellations have fancy sounding names though? I'm not sure we can just call this one "stretching cat"...

I don't see anything wrong with "stretching cat"... that's what it looks like.

It's not as fancy as the normal names... it should be something like...

[ she doesn't even know latin ]

Cattus Relaxus?

[wtf is latin]

I like that!

[ a dead language for a reason ]

Cattus Relaxus it is then. Now what else is hiding up there...

Hmm...

[she looks up at the sky and then traces out a pattern from the stars.]

That looks sort of like a butterfly.

[ she leans in, shoulder bumping lightly against yona's to get a better look from the same angle. ]

Which one...? [ squints ] Oh, I see it.

What should we call it?

[well, going by alex's name from before...]

Butterfly..us, flutterus?

[that just sounds stupid.]

Hmm...

If I knew any Latin at all I'd just say use the name for butterfly, but... I don't. [ unfortunate. ]

[she said "latin" out loud, so.]

...what's Latin?

An old dead language in the world I'm from, I think? It crops up when you least expect it, or something's trying to sound fancy.

...

I think the name of where I live might be a Latin word? But I don't know for sure.

[ becks, an ancient history major, vibrating with knowledge but not allowed to icly share it ]

What's the name of where you live?

[...she asks, as if she'll have any way of knowing if it's latin or not.]

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