(an exchange he'd have made happily, easily, without a single backwards glance if it'd been up to him or in his power for all that the only thing within his power is to destroy, be it humans or chains or his own body from the inside out, cities or dimensions or worlds; and one of these things is more expendable than the rest.)
— an apt comparison, really, when comparing the lives of celestial bodies to the all too short ones of humans, for all that it wasn't quite what he'd meant. or perhaps it's not so different at all, but still he shakes his head. )
And relative to something else bigger, you could say the same about this star.
( astronomy is a branch of the sciences he's truthfully avoided more than anything else, but it's easy to imagine something so much bigger in the vastness of a place like space, after knowing something like the abyss. he goes on after a long exhale. )
This is a nice city( -ship, but best not to dwell on it. ) It's almost easy to forget where we really are.
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(an exchange he'd have made happily, easily, without a single backwards glance if it'd been up to him or in his power for all that the only thing within his power is to destroy, be it humans or chains or his own body from the inside out, cities or dimensions or worlds; and one of these things is more expendable than the rest.)
— an apt comparison, really, when comparing the lives of celestial bodies to the all too short ones of humans, for all that it wasn't quite what he'd meant. or perhaps it's not so different at all, but still he shakes his head. )
And relative to something else bigger, you could say the same about this star.
( astronomy is a branch of the sciences he's truthfully avoided more than anything else, but it's easy to imagine something so much bigger in the vastness of a place like space, after knowing something like the abyss. he goes on after a long exhale. )
This is a nice city( -ship, but best not to dwell on it. ) It's almost easy to forget where we really are.